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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Tom Watling

Major autism breakthrough could revolutionise treatments and care

Researchers have taken a “transformative step” towards understanding the biology underlying autism after discovering four subtypes of the genetic condition.

Scientists at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation analysed data from 5,000 children in SPARK, an autism cohort study, to group individuals based on their combination of traits.

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