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JYD Kids of Mud complete series with five firsts

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 03:15 PM PDT

Posted By Eric Mackenzie, The Daily Graphic

Updated 11 hours ago

The Kids of Mud cycling series wrapped up with the fourth and final race this past weekend, and the Portage Junkyard Dogs team secured five first overall finishes in the standings and several more high placings.

"I'm so proud of everyone that participated this year," said head coach Dave Stanley. "Everyone really pushed it. There was nobody slacking off in the races, and all you can ask as a coach is that everybody gives their best. It was really impressive."

Kids of Mud Race #4 took place at the JYD-maintained Birch Ski Area course near Roseisle on Sunday, and a few local riders made up some ground in the standings on the final day.

One of those was Jenna Shackleton, who won the U15 female race by nearly three minutes to leapfrog her way to the top of the standings.

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Posted: 30 Jun 2010 03:14 PM PDT

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Not so, says Stanley Nelson, a geneticist at the University of California-Los Angeles, who sent me an E-mail this morning so vehement that I just had to call him up and get the scoop. Clearly, finding more autism genes could make it easier to identify the causes of autism and discover potential treatments. So I was at first surprised by what Nelson said. "This work is grossly inadequate, even though it reflects about 15 to 20 years of sample collection, tens of millions [of dollars] in molecular testing, and analytical effort," he wrote, adding that this biggest-ever study, published online in Nature, explains the genetic basis of only about 3 percent of diagnosed cases of autism.

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