Looming Large

Last month, I wrote about a remarkable study showing a genetic connection between obesity and autism. Rare deletions on chromosome 16, it turns out, crop up in a whopping three percent of individuals who are both obese and have a developmental delay.This begs the question: How many people with autism are also obese?There's scant data to address that, but two studies published earlier this year begin to give a rigorous account.Read more at...SFARI, April 2010.