Flip-flopping on folate: Leucovorin prescriptions for children with autism increased by 71 percent after a White House briefing last September that promoted the drug as an autism treatment, according to a new study. In analyzing the evidence base for the announcement, The Transmitter found that the 23 studies encompassed data from a total of 46 […]
Long-read sequencing reveals novel autism-linked variants that short-read sequencing misses, according to two preprints posted on medRxiv in July. “These are two very nice papers from top labs. They both make compelling cases for long-read sequencing,” says Michael Gandal, associate professor of psychiatry, genetics and pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, […]
Research summary People with FOXP1 syndrome, which is characterized by intellectual retardation and developmental delay, may also have autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and anxiety. Molecular Autism Pairs of twins in which one twin is autistic had more obstetric complications than non-autistic twins, according to a new meta-analysis, although complicated births and autism may have […]
