{"id":110583,"date":"2020-07-28T19:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T02:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/breakthrough-in-autism-spectrum-research-finds-genetic-wrinkles-in-dna-could-be-a-cause"},"modified":"2020-07-28T19:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T02:23:05","slug":"breakthrough-in-autism-spectrum-research-finds-genetic-wrinkles-in-dna-could-be-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/breakthrough-in-autism-spectrum-research-finds-genetic-wrinkles-in-dna-could-be-a-cause","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in autism spectrum research finds genetic \u2018wrinkles\u2019 in DNA could be a cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-in-autism-spectrum-research-finds-genetic-wrinkles-in-dna-could-be-a-cause.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 In a lab at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, scientists went on a hunt through the DNA of some 10,000 families \u2014 many whom have children with autism.<\/p>\n<p>Through this research, they identified something they call \u201cgenetic wrinkles\u201d in DNA itself, a breakthrough they believe could explain why some individuals find themselves on the autistic spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that this could be an important new clue into how to diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD) early, or even treat it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 In a lab at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, scientists went on a hunt through the DNA of some 10,000 families \u2014 many whom have children with autism. Through this research, they identified something they call \u201cgenetic wrinkles\u201d in DNA itself, a breakthrough they believe could explain why some individuals find [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}