Autism Quote by Holly Robinson Peete

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

— Holly Robinson Peete

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

— Elizabeth Emken

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

I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism and some of it…

— Kelly Preston

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

The position of Autism Speaks has been for quite awhile that we need to find out what's happening. We know there's a genetic component,…

— Elizabeth Emken

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

What makes autism different is the history of neglect into the disorder. It's remained such a mystery that science has been very slow to…

— Elizabeth Emken

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

You take somebody - one person has definitely got autism, you got another person that maybe has some of those traits and maybe there's…

— Temple Grandin

I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic description don't…

— Darold Treffert

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

— Thomas R. Insel