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SUBMITTER: Nystrom P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5938234 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180507 1
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting around 1% of the population. We previously discovered that infant siblings of children with ASD had stronger pupillary light reflexes compared to low-risk infants, a result which contrasts sharply with the weak pupillary light reflex typically seen in both children and adults with ASD. Here, we show that on average the relative constriction of the pupillary light reflex is larger in 9-10-month-old high risk infant sibling ...[more]