Autism is inherited

Parents of autistic children have many signs of being infected with this disease compared to parents of children with no disease. It means that children with this disease are inherited from their parents.

In a recent study, published online on June 18 in the JAMA psychiatry magazine, researchers examined data from 256 autistic children and 1,400 children without disorder this disease. Researchers have also analyzed data from more than 1,200 mothers and 1,600 fathers of children.

Scientists conducted research on couples by giving them a test of autism characteristics.

Characteristic autism in parents will cause the risk of clinical autism in their children.

Among the families participating in the study, couples with high test scores were at 85% more likely to have their children with the disease.

If only one of them achieved a high score on the test, it would only stay at 52%, compared to couples who achieved a low score.

Moreover, the study results also show that if one of the parents has a high autism characteristics test, the other person will also get a high score. It seems that they share personal characteristics and personalities.

Researchers say they are not sure why they have that trait, but they believe that this trait is very common in most couples.

The author of the study, Dr. John N. Constantino, professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said some of the common characteristics of parents of children with autism are found to be difficulty in receiving social skills. They tend to isolate themselves from people around and have vicious thoughts.

Previous research has also shown that siblings of children with autism tend to be more prone to the disease than those of normal children.

Constantino also said that the new study shows that it is the parents' autism trait that causes the risk of clinical autism in their children. Moreover, this increase in parental characteristics increases the risk of clinical autism in children.