Posted on 04/08/2008 6:08:16 AM PDT by Renfield
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Cryobank doesn't reveal the identities of donors but allows people to choose based on the traits they'd like their child to have. Jackaway decided on "Donor X" because he appeared philosophical and intelligent on paper. He liked music, loved to travel and had a high IQ and a degree in economics.
What she couldn't know then is that her son would have autism. So she started to wonder whether Donor X might carry a gene that could have contributed...
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Researchers have found some genetic areas associated with autism, but it could take years before the gene or genes that cause autism or contribute to it will be determined.
Until then, Geri Dawson, chief science officer for the Manhattan-based advocacy group Autism Speaks, says there's no way to screen for those genes and prevent them from being passed to a child.
"We wouldn't be able to screen a donor for autism because we don't yet know the specific genes that are contributing to autism," Dawson said. "But there is a lot of research going on, and I would say in the next five to 10 years, we will have identified between five and 10 genes that we know raise the risk for autism."
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His name was Jackaway? You can't make this stuff up.
That’s the cousin of Heywood Jablowme, ain’t it ?
LOL
Jackaway...sperm bank...fish in a barrel, fish in a barrel...
Jackaway is the mother's last name.
You had to ruin the fun, didn’t you? :O)
It is truly disheartening when your son is diagnosed with a developmental disorder (my son was; though not full-blown autism).
But you do accept it; and would I change anything now? Hard to say.
Never mind; I don’t want to be in the fourth grade today.
Autism inherited? Impossible says a website devoted to ranting about mercury in vaccines and fillings in teeth and fish and just about everything else.
Considering all the $$$ BLOWN on lawsuits against the vaccine companies with claims that the preservatives cause autism this is really a tragedy. This finding strongly suggests a genetic correlation that may lead to a conclusion that naughty genes are the cause. Too bad for the vaccine companies and lawyers.
Unless there was a sudden genetic change across the nation why have the number of cases gone up? Well, it might be because of looser diagnostic requirements or it could be because of some new enviromental causes. It could also be that a genetic defect makes you more vulnerable to the enviromental cause.
Life is like a box of chocolates...
Show me such a web site.
Everything I've ever read says that you can inherit a predisposition towards autism, and that it's triggered by some environmental factor.
That's what happened to my son; he was diagnosed with rather large levels of toxic metals (not from vaccines), because he had a genetic predisposition to being vulnerable to them.
It might be interesting to see if Donor X had been used to produce other children. It could indicate a pattern that would be more useful than another lawsuit.
I don’t promote such websites but simply use your google button, you’ll get there.
She really wanted some Rodney Dangerfield but they ran out of him a long time ago.
Nevertheless, there are a lot of kids running around today who don’t get no respect.
>Jackaway is the mother’s last name.
Then the donor’s name could still have been Wayne King.
Alternatively there may be a continuum in human beings between ‘artistic’ and ‘mathematic’ or some such; and for the majority of people to be born in the middle a good healthy amount of both traits, some are going to be fantastically flaky and others will insist on watching Wopner at 6 no matter what!
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