Clinicians and researchers continue to push back on unsupported claims about the causes of autism while new NIH projects aim ...

(Dr. Talat Khan, Doctor-in-charge, Medical Genetics, Metropolis Healthcare Limited) Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a multifactorial neurodevelopmental disorder that affects behaviour and social ...

Genes influence when autism becomes visible, revealing early and late developmental patterns across childhood.

A new analysis of genetic data suggests that individuals with a genetic predisposition for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism spectrum disorder may also have a heightened risk ...

Science has shown autism is mostly rooted in genetics, with discovery of several hundred genes ... The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical ...

While the definitive causes remain unclear, several genetic and environmental factors increase the likelihood of autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, a group of conditions covering a "spectrum" of ...

A multi-university research team co-led by University of Virginia engineering professor Gustavo K. Rohde has developed a system that can spot genetic markers of autism in brain images with 89 to 95% ...

In a major step forward for autism research, diagnostics, and patient care, researchers have found four distinct autism subtypes, which can be differentiated by genetic features. These clinically ...

More than a hundred autism genes have been identified, explains author Peter Hotez. And Tylenol isn't the biggest ...