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[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]

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]

Genetic markers for what though? if the groups were based on height or eye color then there could be common genetic markers but that wouldn’t say anything useful about the nosology of autism. [/quote]

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