Julia Wynn, Anna Karlsen, Benjamin Huber, Alina Levine, Amanie Salem, L Casey White, Marti Luby, Ekaterina Bezborodko, Sabrina Xiao, Wendy K Chung, Robert L Klitzman, Paul S Appelbaum
Genetic testing is recommended as part of an autism assessment, and most parents support genetic testing for their minor children. However, the impact on parents of receiving a monogenetic/ copy number variant diagnosis for autism in their child is not well understood. To explore this, we surveyed and interviewed parents of children in the SPARK study, a study of autism that includes genetic testing. Surveys were administered one month before and one and 12 months after parents received their child's genetic result...
April 5, 2024: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders