Dr. Yuen discovered and patented a method to detect tandem repeat expansions in complex brain disorders. He and his research team used this method to determine that tandem repeat expansions contribute to at least 3% of autism cases.
When I was diagnosed with autism at 13 years old, I wasn’t even sure what the word meant. My parents told me, in the most basic way, that my brain worked differently than others. It was not good or bad, it was just different.
