Introduction Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder that affects 1 in 54 children in the United States, with four times as many males diagnosed than females ( The heterogeneity of ASD can be observed in the neurologic, metabolic, and immunologic systems, etc
Genomic biomarkers are considered here as providing merely a foundation for identifying inherited risks that intersect with broader (and clinically more relevant) proteomic and fluid markers
Bacteriostatic water is sterile water with a preservative (benzyl alcohol), while normal saline is sterile water with 0.9% sodium chloride to make it isotonic
Different peptides can interact, aggregate, or inactivate each other when combined in solution
Finally, the statistical models did not include BMI, as BMI data were only available in 39/53 asymptomatic individuals