AIMAN INAM

CALIFORNIA: Researchers have discovered in a most recent study, devised in order to assess bio-markers meant for autism that expected ladies suffering from dysfunctional immune structure are likely to have a baby with autism and mental disorder.

The lead study author from the University of California, Professor Judy Van de Water noted: “Inflammation during the second trimester in the mothers of children with autism who also have intellectual disability was significantly greater than in mothers of children with autism without intellectual disability in our study.”

For conducting this research, scientists examined the blood serum samples of approximately 184 moms whose kids have been suffering from autism and intellectual disability.

In this framework, 201 mothers had kids with autism with no mental chaos, 188 women had offspring with developmental disability, whereas, around 428 common population control groups.

Scientists have reported their results online in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Professor Van de Water,  “However, equally significant was that profiles of mothers whose children go on to be diagnosed with autism and intellectual disability differed markedly from those whose children have intellectual disability without autism, as well as from the typically developing general population”.

“Their profiles are distinct from all of the other groups that we studied, based on their cytokine and chemokine profiles. This finding suggests an avenue that we will explore to potentially identify possible markers to separate sub-phenotypes in the autism population”, Professor Van de Water added.