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2009-03-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Glenmore 2009-03-19 08:22|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Inbreeding of an already susceptible population.
Middle Eastern Families Help Scientists Pinpoint Autism Genes
Walsh and his colleagues took another step to make finding autism genes easier: they specifically targeted families in which the mother and father shared a recent ancestor. "This shared ancestry roughly doubles the chance of offspring being affected," he explained. "This increase in risk is modest - about the same as having a child at age 40 versus at age 20 - but more importantly, the shared ancestry provides a trace that makes it easier to track inherited mutations."

Posted by ed 2009-03-19 08:53|| 2009-03-19 08:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmmm. If autism, a mental illness, gets concentrated in a population through inbreeding, is militant Islam just another variant of mental illness concentrated through inbreeding (or via contagion - maybe goats?)

Posted by Glenmore 2009-03-19 09:05|| 2009-03-19 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 There's a genetic connection for autism and Asperger's Syndrome. We have three Aspies out of 5 kids. My dad, who is a genius but is so narrow minded he can see through a keyhole with both eyes, shows a lot of Asperger traits. As the family historian I can see who probably had autistic traits in the last four generations, on both my dad's side and my mom's side.

I'm a carrier for the Asperger gene, even though my parents' families came from different parts of what is now Germany.

So it would make sense that, in a culture that encourages marriage between close relatives, we see a higher rate of autism. We'll probably see aa high concentration of other genetic conditions as well.

The Spanish Habsburgs in the 16th and 17th Centuries intermarried with their Austrian cousins to the point that the Habsburg chin became a deformity, rendering Charles II of Spain unable to chew his food. The family was already dying out; and Charles II had so many physical problems that the line died out with him.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-03-19 10:01|| 2009-03-19 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 You know the most fascinating things, mom!

Posted by trailing wife 2009-03-19 14:36|| 2009-03-19 14:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Since this particular incidence seems to be related to inbreeding, is there any way to check Somalis in Somalia to see if it's also occurring there, too? (Probably not. Too bad.)

I see the anti-vaccine clowns are hard at it, in spite of zero scientific evidence on their side, and several scientific studies debunking any connection between vaccination and autistm....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-19 15:09|| 2009-03-19 15:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's a brief but useful article on the autism/MMR discussion:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/mmr_prog_summary.shtml

Thanks, TW. History is my favorite soap opera.

It's kind of odd trying to teach history to an Aspie child who doesn't get cause and effect. At the elementary school level, she could get by with memorizing the sequence of events and learning the connections later. We used American Girl as our structure for History, and the autism therapists used the American Girls short stories to teach her cause and effect from a story. That took weeks per story.

At the high school level, her method isn't working so well; the issues are too complex to memorize a sequence.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-03-19 15:37|| 2009-03-19 15:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Wall to wall victims all. Useful idiots helping Islamists work the generous MN support systems. Next, convince them vaccines are the work of the devil and measles is better.

Posted by KBK 2009-03-19 22:06|| 2009-03-19 22:06|| Front Page Top

#8 KBK, if you don't have an autistic child, then just shut up. You seem to have been in the bathroom when God was passing out empathy.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-03-19 23:41|| 2009-03-19 23:41|| Front Page Top

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