Study To Follow Pregnant Women To Better Understand Causes, Early Signs Of Autism
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NIH and the advocacy group Autism Speaks are enrolling 1,200 pregnant women who have other children with autism spectrum disorders to participate in a large study that aims to identify early signs of the condition and its possible causes … Women who participate in the study … will be monitored throughout their pregnancies, and their infants will be monitored until age three …
The study will focus on women who already have one child with an autism spectrum disorder because such women have a higher chance of having another child with the condition. … “By studying families who are already affected by autism, we feel we have the best chance at learning how genetics and environmental factors could work together to cause autism.” ….
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