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...Eileen Muniz is not expecting that kind of breakthrough to come in time to help her 6-year-old daughter Gianna or her 5-year-old twins Vincent and Marz, who, she says, are doing well thanks to early intervention programs and specialized classes. "If I could spare a family what we go through, I'd give a kidney," she says. "Let that be my kids' gift to another family...
...Eileen Muniz of Mohegan Lake, N.Y., cannot imagine what bizarre twist of fate caused all three of her children to be afflicted with autism spectrum disorders. There's no family history of autism, she says. "You always ask yourself, Is it me? Is it him [her ex-husband]? I had my kids late - in my mid-30s. Was I on the birth control pill too long? I never did drugs. I don't smoke. I can't figure out why this would happen to us. That's why I wanted to do the genetic testing...
...Muniz, her ex and her children are among the 2,025 families who volunteered to be genetically tested for a vast registry called the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE), assembled to help researchers untangle the complex genetics of autism. Now that effort is beginning to pay off. The largest genetic study of autism ever attempted - involving more than 3,000 participants from AGRE, 1,453 cases from other sources and over 7,000 additional control subjects - identified genetic variations in a region of chromosome 5 that appears to play a pivotal role in about 15% of cases of autism. What...
...part of the collection, that's a good way to alienate potential future donors - assuming that Brandeis sees a place in its future at all for displaying art. Marlene Persky, who chairs the collections committee of the Rose, had been planning to give the school a work by Vik Muniz, an artist who is represented in the collections of most major American museums. Not anymore. "The things in my collection are objects I've loved and lived with," she says. "If I'm donating them to a museum, I expect that to be a place that I trust, where...
...mates...minus one. “Cecille actually decided to boycott,” Dern says.Unfortunately for Dern, it would seem that Gahr isn’t the only woman with whom he’s fallen out of favor.“JennyLee’s dating Frankie Muniz,” Dern adds.But he sounds more amused than upset. “It adds to the absurdity.” In general, however, Dern sounds somewhat defeated. “Now that it’s over there’s a weird feeling of hollowness or incompleteness...