What they found: Scientists at UC San Diego identified cellular metabolism and energy signaling as a central factor connecting all known genetic and environmental autism risk factors. The 3-hit model: ...

Stanford researchers collaborated on a Nature study published in January, which revealed that many autism-linked mutations ultimately converge on shared biological pathways despite genetic complexity.

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum ...