{"id":213605,"date":"2025-05-09T01:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/connection-between-autism-spectrum-disorder-and-myotonic-dystrophy"},"modified":"2025-05-09T01:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:45:14","slug":"connection-between-autism-spectrum-disorder-and-myotonic-dystrophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/connection-between-autism-spectrum-disorder-and-myotonic-dystrophy","title":{"rendered":"Connection between autism spectrum disorder and myotonic dystrophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/connection-between-autism-spectrum-disorder-and-myotonic-dystrophy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent discovery of a molecular connection between autism and myotonic dystrophy, a type of neuromuscular disease, may provide a breakthrough on how clinicians approach autism spectrum disorder.<\/p>\n<p>The new study by an interdisciplinary team of biomedical scientists, published in <i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i>, used myotonic dystrophy as a tool or model to learn more about autism \u2013 effectively using one disorder to better understand the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe identified a new pathway that can lead to autism,\u201d said the research lead. \u201cWe found that a genetic mutation in a certain gene can disrupt the expression of multiple autism-related genes during brain development, causing autism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent discovery of a molecular connection between autism and myotonic dystrophy, a type of neuromuscular disease, may provide a breakthrough on how clinicians approach autism spectrum disorder. The new study by an interdisciplinary team of biomedical scientists, published in Nature Neuroscience, used myotonic dystrophy as a tool or model to learn more about autism [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213605","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\/213605","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}