Researchers test blood for autism
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Diagnosing autism currently requires hours of observation by clinicians and a far from objective series of behavioral measures, but improvements in genetic testing could make the process more efficient. In a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from Children's Hospital Boston describe a new experimental test to detect the developmental disorder, based on the differences in gene expression between kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and those without the condition. The blood-based test appears to predict autism relatively accurately, at least among boys, and has already been licensed to a company, SynapDx, for commercial development. In an e-mail statement to TIME, a spokeswoman for SynapDx said the company plans to start clinical trials of the new test in early 2013. TIME. com: Autism studies confirm genetic complexity and risk for older fathers Autism linked to flu in moms?
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Isaac Kohane
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| -0.123596 | "A week does not go by where you don't hear about a genetic mutation that has been linked to autism in at least a few families," says Isaac Kohane, ... |
| -0.0327673 | "There are a lot of different mutations involved, and a lot of different pathways that seem to be involved in autism," Kohane says. ... |
| -0.324633 | "The fact that not all kids had both, and some kids would be more abnormal in immunological pathways and others would be more abnormal in (another pathway) spoke, I think, to the genuine heterogeneity of the disease," Kohane says. ... |
| 0 | "In that respect, autism is beginning to look a lot like what the cancer biologists are telling us about breast cancer, or lung cancer," he says. ... |
| 0.0473501 | "In that respect, autism is beginning to look a lot like what the cancer biologists are telling us about breast cancer, or lung cancer," he says. "There may be hundreds of different molecularly defined cancers, which each have their own specific optimal treatment." |
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Earlier detection of autism, relying on markers in the blood, may help more children to take advantage of helpful behavioral therapies.
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