6. Nuovi progetti di vita
(recombination da zero tutti geni)
Jurassic
park mentality
(virus, bacteria, dinosaur, altre specie nouve recreati)
Eventually
data for genetic
testing can theoretically be offered to families at risk.
Scientists
have believed for some time that autism
has genetic origins, but now indications are that a particular process known as
genetic imprinting is at work. Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have
concluded that fathers can carry the autism gene on chromosome 7 while
mothers carry the faulty material on chromosome 15. Usually genes are
either dominant or recessive, with dominant ones determining whether a child
inherits particular characteristics.
Genetic
imprinting means the particular parent carrying a gene will determine whether or
not the characteristics are passed on.
Professor
Pat Jacobs from the Wessex Regional Genetics Lab in Salisbury "We know
there are problems with gene duplications in one region of chromosome 15 - on
the maternal side we have seen this linked to speech, language and developmental
problems and, in extreme case, austistic features"
