Genetics, Diagnosis, and the Male-Female Gender Gap in Autism

• By: Doreen Samelson, EdD, MSCP Catalight
• January 10th, 2024
• autism genetics, behavioral differences, complexity of diagnoses, diagnosis, diagnosis bias, diagnostic tools, gender, gender representation, genetic analysis, male-female gap, research disparities, Winter 2024 Issue
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I hesitated to write this article. What business does a psychologist like me have writing about genetics and the gender gap in autism? I am not a geneticist. At most, genetics plays a small role in my professional life. But questions kept nagging at me. Some are specific to autism spectrum disorder...

Studies Map Gene Expression Across Brain Development

• By: Virginia Hughes SFARI.org
• January 1st, 2014
• autism genetics, brain development, fetal brain development, gene expression, genetic heterogeneity, glutamatergic neurons, neural networks, research, science, synapse function
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Now that genetic studies have implicated several hundred genes in autism, researchers are turning their attention to where and when in the healthy young brain these genes are expressed. The first two studies to tackle these questions appeared on November 21, 2013 in Cell. One report, led by...