Folate-dependent one carbon metabolism and transsulfuration pathways: biomarkers for autism?

I found it a little unusual that the findings reported by Daniel Howsmon and colleagues [1] (open-access) talking about " multivariate...

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The continued rise of autism research metabolomics

For anyone that has followed this blog down the years you'll probably have noticed that I'm quite a big fan of the inclusion of the ...

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Baby teeth and autism research

" This report provides evidence that teeth can be useful biomarkers of early life exposure for use in epidemiologic case-control studie...

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Brain glutathione and "ASD in intellectually able adult men"

A quote to start: " [1H]MRS [ proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ]  measures of cortical and subcortical GSH  [ glutathione ]  are ...

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Treatable inborn errors of metabolism in cases of autism

Happy New Year! Καλή Χρονιά (in Greek). Welcome back to Questioning Answers in 2014. Let's continue our journey across the autism resear...

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Suicidal behaviour in autism

The paper by Hannon and Taylor * was the starting point for today's post looking at suicidal behaviour among people diagnosed as being ...

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Not metabolomics and autism again...

I don't mind admitting that I am a bit of a nerd when it comes to certain things. Yes I still thrill at watching the films of the 1970s ...

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Waiting patent-ly: Gc globulin, vitamin D and autism?

As summer inevitably turns to Autumn and the prospect of those colder, darker winter days and nights further encroaches, I find myself again...

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