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[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] What’s significant here is that they found different genetic markers associated with the different clinical groupings. I agree that you can group things however and it doesn’t necessarily mean much but when you find a different genetic markers associated with the different groups that suggests there’s a different etiology and maybe different treatments.[/quote]
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