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For others: epistasis and the evolutionary survival of an extreme tail of the quantitative distribution of autistic assets.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2008
Ijichi Shinji, Ijichi Naomi, Ijichi Yukina, Kawamura Yutaka, Hashiguchi Tomo, Morioka Hirofumi
Abstract excerpt
The ongoing paradigm shift from the traditional qualitative dichotomy concept to the quantitative framework increases the necessity of an evolutionary implication and interpretation of the presence of a hypo-reproductive behavioral extreme (autism) with strong genetic contribution. As a theoretical challenge to explain the survival of the dimensional distribution of autistic traits, an epistasis-associated...
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