'When Engineers' Genes Collide'

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When Engineers' Genes Collide

By Philip E. Ross

IEEE Spectrum

Could modern patterns of marriage be concentrating the genes that

predispose people to autism?

Psychologists have long been baffled by an apparent long-term rise in

the incidence of autism, a psychological disorder that disables

children and devastates their families. Some attribute the trend to

changes in diagnostic practices, others to factors in the prenatal

environment. But mounting evidence that genes and hormones play a role

has given rise to a new theory that could have distressing

implications for engineers and their spouses.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct06/4665