Autism’s Unexpected Link to Cancer Genes - NYTimes.com

Autism’s Unexpected Link to Cancer Genes - NYTimes.com: Ten percent of children with mutations in a gene called PTEN, which cause cancers of the breast, colon, thyroid and other organs, have autism. So do about half of children with gene mutations that can lead to some kinds of brain and kidney cancer and large tumors in several organs, including the brain. That is many times the rate of autism in the general population.