Autism research tool uncovers how nature, nurture shape children's risk (IMAGE)
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"Traditionally, genetic studies focus on the ‘direct effects’ of genes passed from parent to child. However, a child’s health is also shaped by ‘indirect effects’—how a parent’s own genetic makeup influences the environment they provide for their child,” said Ziqiao Wang, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Genome Sciences. “PGS-TRI analyzes families, both parents and children, to figure out which health effects come directly from your genes versus which come from the environment your parents created.”
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