Genetic variant and autoantibodies linked to having a child with autism

Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 23:30 in Health & Medicine

A new study has found that pregnant women with a particular gene variation are more likely to produce autoantibodies to the brains of their developing fetuses and that the children of these mothers are at greater risk of later being diagnosed with autism.

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