Australia makes breakthrough in autism diagnosis

This new discovery is the basis for community-wide monitoring of children, allowing early prevention of autism in children.

Researchers at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne have developed a new test to help diagnose fragile X syndrome, the most common genetic cause of autism.

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With this method, medical staff only need to perform a blood test to analyze DNA to get accurate results on the type and severity of symptoms that genetic genes can cause autism.

This test is both inexpensive and allows detection in infants rather than having to wait until autism symptoms appear at around age 3.

Autism can lead to a range of physical and behavioral developmental disorders. Australia has about 70,000 people with autism, and the disease is difficult to detect early in girls./.

According to VNA