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Autism Screening at Birth: New research identifies an early biomarker in the placenta of at-risk babies.
Harvey Kliman, MD, PhD, never planned on developing the first and only test that diagnoses autism risk at birth.
"What I discovered was totally by accident," the research scientist in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at Yale School of Medicine, revealed.
Dr. Kliman, lead author of a new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, examined placentas and found that abnormal folds (called trophoblast inclusions) could predict whether children had a higher risk of aut
Source: Advance Healthcare Network