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anahita
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10 Nov 2009, 9:39 am

Before diagnosing with autism or Asperger syndrome I have had cyatinuria ( it is a rare inherited disorder 1:15000),which causes kidney stones .At first I looked at my inabilities in socialization as a discrete disorder, but after some searches I reached to this point that cystiuria can easily affect normal life. psychomotor retardation incomprehensible speech ,hypotonia are associated with cystinuria.also new investigations show that cystine has a great role in autism. but I can’t find the exact correlation . Does anyone here know that Metabolic Inborn errors can result autism or not?



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10 Nov 2009, 11:40 am

anahita wrote:
Before diagnosing with autism or Asperger syndrome I have had cyatinuria ( it is a rare inherited disorder 1:15000),which causes kidney stones .At first I looked at my inabilities in socialization as a discrete disorder, but after some searches I reached to this point that cystiuria can easily affect normal life. psychomotor retardation incomprehensible speech ,hypotonia are associated with cystinuria.also new investigations show that cystine has a great role in autism. but I can’t find the exact correlation . Does anyone here know that Metabolic Inborn errors can result autism or not?


There has been a link between many rare or uncommon genetic disorders and autism spectrum disorders. This much they know about.



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10 Nov 2009, 12:07 pm

Tuberous Sclerosis is another genetic disorder that can cause Autism.