🔴 "Early symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in 1-8 year old children with sex chromosome trisomies (XXX, XXY, XYY), and the predictive value of joint attention*" PART 2.

Research over the past decade has established that neurodiversities such as Autism are far common in people with an Extra 47th X or Y chromosome than in the average population. At the same time, most are not Autistic.

What does this mean in practice for parents who have a young child diagnosed with an extra chromosome?

Groundbreaking research published in 2022 shows that Autism in Extra X&Y children be predicted as early as the age of 1. This matters, because it means early monitoring of social adaptive functions of children with Extra chromosomes should be done as routine care within the first years of life.

Not only may it a ...