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[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]

Microbiome is a very new field. I wouldn't be too sure about that.[/quote]

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