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Download full textNational Institutes of Health, 2005
This document defines and discusses autism and how genes play a role in the condition. Answers to the following questions are covered: (1) What are genes? (2) What is autism? (3) What causes autism? (4) Why study genes to learn about autism? (5) How do researchers look for the genes involved in autism? (screen the whole genome; conduct cytogenetic…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Autism, Genetics, Heredity
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC. – 1988
Genetic disease and birth defects pose a unique set of concerns for affected individuals and their families. The need of these individuals for pastoral care--guidance for difficult decisions, bereavement counseling, and support--has opened a new area of ministry for pastors and pastoral counselors of all faiths. This ministry occupies the…
Descriptors: Bioethics, Biology, Clergy, Congenital Impairments
