Research recently reported in the journal Biological Psychiatry, lead by Dr. Harvey Kliman of Yale University, offers further support to the idea that examining the placenta of a newborn for folds and unusual cell growth known as trophoblast inclusions may be a very good predictor of Autism risk. The study looked for these anomolies in placentas from newborns with siblings that had or had not been diagnosed with Autism, which is an established predictor of risk for developing Autism. Read more about it at healthyday.com here:
http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=675720
Purchase access to the full research report in the journal Biological Psychiatry at sciencedirect.com here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006322313002497
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