Scientists have identified multiple genes and mutations that seem to be related to ASDs, but it's more complex than just genetics.

科学家们发现多基因和基因突变似乎和自闭症有关，但它比遗传学更加复杂。

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They found genes and mutations associated with autism in 88 large families from the Arab Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan, in which Cousins married and had children with the disorder.

在88个父母为表亲或堂亲、子女患有自闭症的中东阿拉伯、土耳其和巴基斯坦的大家庭中，研究人员发现了与自闭症有关的基因及基因突变。

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Though not a Berliner—she was born near Heidelberg in 1944—Ms Horn has been drawn to the city whose upheavals and mutations have so shaken Germany’s artistic imagination over the past halfcentury.

正是这个城市，其动荡和盛衰曾在上半个世纪里给德国艺术家们的艺术想象带来巨大的影响。

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The researchers found that he and three members of his family had two disease-causing mutations in one gene.

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And one bit of evidence that these genes are implicated is that some unfortunate people have point mutations in these genes.

证明这些基因起作用的一些证据,是这些基因会在某些不幸的人身上,发生点突变

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Maybe Merton Miller is right-- these things are "neutral mutations" and changes in dividend policy are meaningless.

也许莫顿·米勒是对的,这些都是"中性突变",变更股利政策是无意义的

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The biological reasons for why this may be are unclear, but the researchers speculated that potential chromosomal abnormalities in the eggs of older women and mutations in the sperm of older men may be a factor.

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But it does back studies that also show fathers are responsible for mutations and that these mutations increase with age.

BBC: Older dads linked to rise in genetic disorder

In an attempt to elude the pesky pumps and overcome mutations, Bristol-Myers scientists engineered more than 1, 200 taxane molecules.

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