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And in 2020, the researchers discovered that the TREs are genetic contributors to autism and they identified more than 2,588 different places in the genome where the TREs were much more prevalent in people with autism spectrum disorder. And as the tandem repeats expand in the gene, one specific part of the gene or gene, the researchers found that it altered RNA, altered RNA binds. So it's altered RNA binds to a protein that is involved in gene splicing regulation during brain development. So this so-called toxic RNA, it depletes the protein and prevents it from binding to other RNA molecules in important areas of the genome. So this is causing a protein imbalance which results in mis-splicing of other genes. So another aspect of Asperger's or Asperger's or autism spectrum disorder is genes. I mentioned Asperger's. Asperger's were one time part of, considered part of the autism spectrum. Just dropping.