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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are not new categories of autism. They looked at non-core features of autism as currently diagnosed and grouped them. In the same way you wouldn’t say there are “types of depression” based on non-core criteria. Like, you could take all the people diagnosed with depression and group them based on IQ, extroversion/introversion, height, weight, etc etc. Unless you have a theory about why these grouping criteria are causal or relate to the *core symptoms* of the dx, this is a pretty useless activity. [/quote]

didn’t the study find that these different groups correlated with different genetic markers?[/quote]

This is the most important part of the study, IMO.  We could argue about the categories (and the names of the categories) and maybe there should be 1 or 2 more categories.  But this is the most interesting part of it.[/quote]

I don’t find anything at all interesting about it. billions of dollars have been wasted trying to find genetic markers of autism and other DSM conditions. Unless your goal is to create a prenatal test to abort babies with supposed autism genes, I don’t see anything fruitful. [/quote]

Genome editing to reverse behaviors associated with autism. Same goal as the successful fecal transplant studies. [/quote]

Yeah that is not going to happen. fecal transplants are something totally different. [/quote]

Different mechanisms but same goal. Genome therapy is here, read about it. [/quote]

Plenty of people are flying out of fhe country to get stem cell therapy [/quote]

Oh ffs. people. [/quote]

NP it's not our problem that you're an idiot who doesn't read the news.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/infant-rare-incurable-disease-first-successfully-receive-personalized-gene-therapy-treatment
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That’s not what people “flying out of the country to get stem cell transplants” are doing …

But hey if you think this all means your kid can get a stem cell transplant to cure autism don’t let me burst your bubble. [/quote]

I'm not the person talking about stem cell therapies, but you seem to be denying the existence of very real things like genome editing. This conversation is about the goal of this type of research, which is to reverse symptoms of autism. Yes, things like genome AND stem cell therapy might be effective. Please read the research before you mouth off.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9114801/[/quote]

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