A small study suggests that baby teeth may afford a way to explore environmental risk factors for autism.

The tendency of people with autism to not make eye contact is rooted in genetics, suggests a study of identical and fraternal twins.

The odds of getting an autism diagnosis depend on where in the United States a person lives.

Genes are bigger contributors to autism features than are environmental factors, according to a study of nearly 39,000 twins.

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People with autism are at high risk of death from injury, China starts a clinical trial involving human embryonic stem cells, and individuals with autism have trouble seeing faces in food.

Children born to women who had low blood levels of vitamin D while pregnant double their risk of autism.

A woman who smokes while pregnant may increase autism risk in her daughter’s children.

A mother’s immune response to a severe infection during pregnancy disrupts the expression of autism genes in her child, a rat study suggests.

Understanding autism features in children who were deprived of social contact as infants could offer clues to the condition.