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Genes, environment and heritability: why does it matter?
Published August 28, 2019
in ASF Podcast
This week a 5 country collaboration including the largest number of people EVER revealed 80% of the causes of autism are heritable. This is incredibly important to understand autism and move forward with research that matters to families. What it did not do was calculate the role of gene x environment interactions which seems to be the forgotten stepchild of autism research. This week’s #ASFpodcast explains why it is important to understand the heritability while at the same time study the combined effects of genetic and environmental factors.
https://asfpodcast.org/archives/794
Filed under: Autism Research, Autism Science, Diagnosis, epidemiology, gene x environment interactions, podcast, risk