Scott Myers is a neurodevelopmental pediatrician and associate professor of pediatrics at the Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute at Geisinger in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Scott Myers
Associate professor
Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute at Geisinger
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There are no autism-specific genes, just brain genes
There is not yet a single example of a gene that, when mutated, increases the likelihood of autism but not of other neurodevelopmental conditions, including intellectual disability.
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23 March 2021 | 5 min read
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