A massive new genetic analysis reveals that the biological traits underlying autism risk are the same across people of ...

A team of researchers has identified for the first time the mechanism linking a mutation in the Shank3 gene with alterations in social behavior. Using a mouse model carrying this autism-associated ...

In recent decades, the zebrafish has become one of the most valuable model organisms in scientific research. For a variety of ...

Researchers now have thousands of new DNA mutations to study as possible causes of autism, thanks to an artificial intelligence-powered technique described in a study published May 27 in Nature ...

For most of human history, the mind was a mystery box. Behavior emerged, and we simply accepted it—strange, brilliant, troubled, gifted. But today, we peer inside that box. We map genes. We track ...

Autism has a significant and enduring sex bias, with roughly four boys diagnosed for every girl. For many years, experts have ...

Siblings with autism often have DNA mutations that are very different from each other, which suggests that autism is often genetic happenstance, according to a new study. An analysis of the DNA of 170 ...

In fact, about 1 in 20 US boys are diagnosed with autism by age 8. For girls, the rate ranges from about 1 in 70 to 1 in 100.

New research suggests genetic factors may be protecting females from developing autism at the same rate as males. Our ...