date:Sep 08, 2012
milies that have children with autism spectrum disorder.
The children also had a history of seizures or abnormal electrical brain wave activity, as well as a mutation in the gene that regulates how amino acids are metabolised. In exome sequencing, researchers analyze all of the elements in the genome involved in making proteins.
In addition, the team examined cultured neural stem cells from the participants finding that they behaved normally in the presence of branched chain amino acids (BCAA