Autism begins in pregnancy, according to study: Cortical layers disrupted during brain development in autism
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 14:02
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have published a study that gives clear and direct new evidence that autism begins during pregnancy. The researchers analyzed 25 genes in post-mortem brain tissue of children with and without autism. These included genes that serve as biomarkers for brain cell types in different layers of the cortex, genes implicated in autism and several control genes.