Redefining livestock milk by removing folate receptor protein to decrease folate receptor autoimmune disorder in pregnancy and autism

A system for folate receptor free milk to decrease rates of Autism, comprising:

• generating shRNAs targeting the folate receptor in a mammal, conducting nucleofection of the shRNAs, identifying the positive single clone, and conducting nuclear transfer into a mammal producing milk lacking folate receptor antigens.

A milk product, comprising:

• a folate free milk product used to make a product selected from the group consisting of:
• bulk milk, bulk milk used to make cheese whether or not the milk has been pasteurized, sterilized or otherwise treated to reduce the population of microbes prior to cheese making, milk powders, milk solids, caseins, caseinates, and casein hydrolysates, pasteurized, sterilized, preserved milks including microfiltered milks, UHT milks, low fat milks, modified or enhanced milks, ice-cream or other frozen dairy based confections, fermented milk products such as yoghurt or quark, cheeses including full fat, partial de-fatted and fat-free processed cheeses, milk whey, food products enriched through the addition of milk products such as soups, milk from which potentially allergenic molecules have been removed, confections such as chocolate, carbonated milk products, including those with added phosphate and/or citrate, infant formulations which may contain full, partially de-fatted or nonfat milk together with a number of additional supplements, liquid or powdered drink mixtures, and buttermilk and buttermilk powder.