the new breakthrough genetic Autism study

[Guest guest]

Read the paper and OMG it is even more hollow than suspected. 99% rubbish. Possibly 100% rubbish.

They found some CNVs in approx 5.5% of asd kids .... They also found those same mutations in healthy kids, although I cannot see in what percentages – the paper, oddly, does not give that away (or it does, but muddled and not easy to spot). I will have to dig through the supplements, if available.

so two things really

1st those mutations do not “cause” asd.

2nd: even if they did, what about the rest 94% of ASD kids

They also often state that those CNV they discovered are more prevalent (5.5% !!?) in ASD “confirmed genes”, so “they know they are on the right track”

When you look at those “previously discovered genetic links”, again those were the studies that discovered say certain shank2 mutation in 7% of ASD and 3% of controls and then named it a “significant discovery”. A disovery that was never replicated. But is still taken as evidence of “confirmed genetic linkage” in subsequent studies. Such as this one.

Yuck.

Later on concluded that this is a STRONG evidence etc etc.

Obviously fishing for more millions of funding. Decades more of this vomit.

These guys are walking on very thin clouds and are constructing their own stories, plucking them out of thin air.