
<p>Misregulated genes may have big autism role</p>
March 21, 2013
<p>A genetic pathway involving proteins in the endosomes of cells appears to be misregulated in the brains of children with autism, according to a newly published statistical analysis in the journal <em>Molecular Psychiatry</em>. Previously the genes were shown to cause rare forms of the disease but the new study suggests they have a wider role.</p>