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So are you saying our ability to detect it has not actually improved in the past several decades?
by ghostpepper 5y ago
So are you saying our ability to detect it has not actually improved in the past several decades?
- seanhandley 5y agoI'm saying an increase in diagnoses recently is in large part due to a historical underdiagnosis rather than an increasing frequency of children born with ASD. However, the paper hints at environmental factors being responsible for a proportion of the increase (but does not cite evidence to prove it).
- brutus1213 5y agoPaper seems to refer to environment factors and paternal DNA. Is this established or just a hypothesis (the paternal part especially)? It is kind of sad given the advances in sequencing and state of computing power that we cannot reliably diagnose this stuff with sequencing. I thought the promise of 23andme, and ilk was to gain large amounts of data and make progress on these problems (NIPT seems like a success though).