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Higher Risk Of Autism Among

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A major register study

from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet shows that

children born to certain groups of immigrants in Sweden had an

increased risk of developing autism with intellectual disability. The

study includes all children in Stockholm County from 2001 to 2007, and

brings the question of the heredity of autism to the fore.

"This is an intriguing discovery, in

which we can see strong links between a certain kind of autism and the

time of the mother's immigration to Sweden," says principal

investigator Cecilia Magnusson, Associate Professor of epidemiology at

Karolinska Institutet. "The study is important, as it shows that autism

isn't governed only by genetic causes but by environmental factors too."

The study, which is published in the

scientific periodical The British Journal of Psychiatry shows that

children of immigrant parents, particularly from countries of low human

development, are disproportionately likely to develop autism with

intellectual disability, a connection that appears to be related to the

timing of migration rather than complications in childbirth. Children,

whose mothers migrated just before or during pregnancy, ran the highest

risk of all.

"At this juncture we can but speculate

about the causes, but our assumption is that environmental factors

impacting on the developing fetus, such as stress, new dietary habits

or infections, could lead to the development of autism with

intellectual disability," says Dr Magnusson.

At the same time, the results also show

that that autism without intellectual disability (usually

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