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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Mitochondria and autism: the behemoth review
Some of you may have seen yesterday's report of a paper addressing links between mitochondrial disorder and autism. I've parsed that review here, so feel free to take a look. I'm interested in people's personal experiences with some of what the authors found.
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Our pediatric neurologist sent us to a geneticist with the idea of looking at the mitochondrial aspect of the whole thing. We didn't gain any new knowledge from him. Maybe my son's autism came from that area of our genetics; maybe not.
Thankyou for this.
My twins were both diagnosed with a mitochondrial disorder around age 2.5 (shortly after being diagnosed with autism) but their markers weren't consistent with "mitochondrial autism" and they never experienced regression - there were delays from the beginning. I think that goes against the findings of that paper? You did a great job explaining it! Thanks.
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