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If we already know with certainty that neither vaccines, nor mothers, nor gluten can cause autism, many possible causes remain under study",
recalls Professor Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault, head of the child psychiatry department. from the University Hospital of Tours.
It is already clear that this is a neurodevelopmental disorder that appears during pregnancy, the cause of which is probably genetic.
The risk of being affected by autism is indeed higher for children from families already affected, and for boys.
The proportion is three boys for one girl,
“a ratio which could evolve with the progress of detection”
, specifies Inserm, indicating that
“the tools for detecting and evaluating this disorder have essentially been validated on populations of boys, with the risk of concealing signs specific to girls”
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