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SUBMITTER: Miron O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7894135 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miron Oren O Delgado Rafael E RE Delgado Christine F CF Simpson Elizabeth A EA Yu Kun-Hsing KH Gutierrez Anibal A Zeng Guangyu G Gerstenberger Jillian N JN Kohane Isaac S IS
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research 20201102 1
Previous studies report prolonged auditory brainstem response (ABR) in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Despite its promise as a biomarker, it is unclear whether healthy newborns who later develop ASD also show ABR abnormalities. In the current study, we extracted ABR data on 139,154 newborns from their Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, including 321 newborns who were later diagnosed with ASD. We found that the ASD newborns had significant prolongations of their ABR ph ...[more]