Scott Myers

Associate professor
Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute at Geisinger

Scott Myers is a neurodevelopmental pediatrician and associate professor of pediatrics at the Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute at Geisinger in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Spectrum

By David Ledbetter, Scott Myers

23 March 2021

5 min read

Brain made of DNA strands on a background of molecule shapes

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.

Spectrum

There are no autism-specific genes, just brain genes

By David Ledbetter, Scott Myers

23 March 2021 | 5 min read

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