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I'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.
by seanhandley 5y ago
I'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).