[HN Gopher] Risk of Autism Associated with When and Where Forebe...
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       Risk of Autism Associated with When and Where Forebears Lived
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-01-14 21:43 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | sfusato wrote:
       | _> Seven clusters, all in rural areas, had a low risk of an
       | association between autism and family lineage._
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       |  _> "We're really not sure why some rural areas seemed to have
       | what might be called a protective effect," Richards-Steed says.
       | "It's certainly possible that parents and grandparents living in
       | urban areas had different environmental exposures or
       | experiences."_
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       |  _> "What we can say, based on our findings, is what we are being
       | exposed to now is probably not just affecting us or even our
       | children but maybe even our children's children."_
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       |  _> "Evidence shows our environment has a deterministic effect on
       | our growth and development, which includes the germline cells we
       | carry for the next generation," VanDerslice says._
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       | tl;dr: a less _toxic_ environment certainly helps
        
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