Did we inherited autism through the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes?

Given that neanderthals and Denisovans had children with homosapiens I wonder how much of their DNA affects us, I had read that there might even be a chance we inherited autism from the Denisovans?

What do you all think? 

Parents
  • we essentially have the same genes ( linked to autism ) as our early ancestors which makes sense but it just may not have been expressed in them, or maybe it was. SO we have inherited them from them. But I am not sure what this means right now.

    We probably will never know for sure unless we find a tribe somewhere which is essentially one of our ancestors.

    It just surprised me how much we know about our ancestors !

    At the moment I havent time to stop and do some research on this.

    Also my genetic knowledge is way out of date

    boy would I like to dive into this ! 

    please remember there are some 150+ genes linked to autism

    but there are teams out there working on individual groups which is really awesome. 

    Feel free to correct me, the published paper was hard for me to read it was very genetically technical. And its only one paper in hundreds.

Reply
  • we essentially have the same genes ( linked to autism ) as our early ancestors which makes sense but it just may not have been expressed in them, or maybe it was. SO we have inherited them from them. But I am not sure what this means right now.

    We probably will never know for sure unless we find a tribe somewhere which is essentially one of our ancestors.

    It just surprised me how much we know about our ancestors !

    At the moment I havent time to stop and do some research on this.

    Also my genetic knowledge is way out of date

    boy would I like to dive into this ! 

    please remember there are some 150+ genes linked to autism

    but there are teams out there working on individual groups which is really awesome. 

    Feel free to correct me, the published paper was hard for me to read it was very genetically technical. And its only one paper in hundreds.

Children
  • Really that many 150 + genes linked to autism I wonder how many of them may be from neanderthal and Denisovans +15 types of Prehistoric human species? And how many we have from modern man.

    Does anyone think environmental pollution may contribute to autism??