Possible Blood Test to Detect Autism

A special blood marker has been found enabling further understanding of potential gut linked environmental factors to autism. The results, published in an article in Medical News Today, could create blood tests for early screening of the condition.
The findings came from a clinical study by researchers from Western University and the University of Arkansas, and were published in the Journal of Translational Psychiatry and lead by Drs. Richard Frye and Stepan Melynk of Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute. The researchers found evidence of unusual energy metabolism among a subgroup of kids with autism.

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