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Four Distinct Autism Subtypes Identified

Four Distinct Autism Subtypes Identified

By leveraging a person-centered computational approach to phenotypic data from more than 5000 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), researchers have identified four biologically and clinically distinct subtypes of autism and their underlying genetic signals. These four subtypes are: Social and Behavioral Challenges, Mixed ASD with Developmental Delay, Moderate Challenges, and Broadly Affected. “It’s important for families to have groups …

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Even Neanderthals had distinct preferences when it came to making dinner, study suggests | Neanderthals

Even Neanderthals had distinct preferences when it came to making dinner, study suggests | Neanderthals

Nothing turns up the heat in a kitchen quite like debating the best way to chop an onion. Now researchers have found even our prehistoric cousins had distinct preferences when it came to preparing food. Archaeologists studying animal bones recovered from two caves in northern Israel have found different groups of Neanderthals, living at around the same time, butchered the …

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