Autism with intellectual disability linked to mother's immune dysfunction during pregnancy

Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 18:20 in Health & Medicine

Pregnant women with higher levels of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, proteins that control communication between cells of the immune system, may be at significantly greater risk of having a child with autism combined with intellectual disability, researchers have found.

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