{"id":943,"date":"2017-05-30T22:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/?p=943"},"modified":"2017-05-30T22:56:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:56:15","slug":"new-research-into-a-cells-mitochondria-and-asd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/2017\/05\/30\/new-research-into-a-cells-mitochondria-and-asd\/","title":{"rendered":"New research into a cell&#8217;s mitochondria and ASD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of genes have emerged as candidates for Autism Spectrum Disorder.\u00a0 However, other genes found in a cell&#8217;s mitochondria may also be involved in Autism.\u00a0 Mitochondria, a cell&#8217;s organelle that generates the main source of the cell&#8217;s energy, may have variants in its DNA (mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA) that contribute to autism.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Spectrum News article on the University of Washington&#8217;s Dr. Zoran Brkanac research into mtNDA and ASD.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews.org\/opinion\/viewpoint\/new-tools-strengthen-old-link-autism-mitochondria\/\">https:\/\/spectrumnews.org\/opinion\/viewpoint\/new-tools-strengthen-old-link-autism-mitochondria\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of genes have emerged as candidates for Autism Spectrum Disorder.\u00a0 However, other genes found in a cell&#8217;s mitochondria may also be involved in Autism.\u00a0 Mitochondria, a cell&#8217;s organelle that generates the main source of the cell&#8217;s energy, may have variants in its DNA (mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA) that contribute to autism. Follow the Spectrum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/2017\/05\/30\/new-research-into-a-cells-mitochondria-and-asd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New research into a cell&#8217;s mitochondria and ASD<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}