Autism Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

Genes are thought to contribute a certain amount to the cause of autism but it's not 100 per cent. It might be about 60…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.

— Elizabeth Emken

“Assuming aliens do exist, the only problem with scientifically proving the genetic connection between autism and aliens is that no alien DNA has been…

— Thomas D. Taylor

What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more…

— Thomas R. Insel

“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of geneticists that…

— Bill Gaede

Everyone recognises that genes are part of the story but autism isn't 100% genetic. Even if you have identical twins who share all their…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.

— Juan Enriquez

I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I…

— Holly Robinson Peete

Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you…

— Temple Grandin

In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put…

— Temple Grandin

In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where…

— Gerald Fischbach

“DNA evidence suggests that Neanderthals carried a gene known as DRD4-7R as long as forty thousand years ago. DRD4-7R is responsible for a constellation…

— Adam Alter