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The latest autism news from News Medical |
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 | | |  Autism Spectrum Disorder & Allergies Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an umbrella term for developmental conditions that affect communication, behaviour and social interaction. Typically, symptoms start to be seen in young children (before 3 years) and persist throughout life. Affected individuals tend to have an altered perception of the world and have key social differences that cause issues with understanding and relating to other people. | |
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| | | | |  A new study has found that approximately 80 percent of a person’s risk of developing autism stems from inherited genetic factors. | | | | |  Over the past decade, autism spectrum disorder has been linked to mutations in a variety of genes, explaining up to 30 percent of all cases to date. | | | | |  A new paper that challenges widely held ideas about autism has attracted comments from more than 30 scholars across the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, education, and neuroscience. | |
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