01-07-2009, 11:21 PM
I know this won't help much,but it could.The study found it is more likely to be passed from mother to child than from father to child, although the reasons for this are unclear. There is no genetic test for autism. There are, however, prenatal biological tests for other conditions sometimes associated with autism, such as Fragile X syndrome. The fact that autism is now known often to have a genetic component (with recurrence risk in some studies of up to 7% in siblings) offers hope that prenatal diagnosis or screening may someday be possible .
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