実験室内受精後に生まれた子孫の間で自閉症と精神的遅滞

Sven Sandin1, Karl-Gösta Nygren, Anastasia Iliadou

  • 1Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, England. sven.sandin@kcl.ac.uk

JAMA
|July 4, 2013
PubMed
まとめ

試験管内受精 (IVF) は全体的に自閉症障害と関連していないが,精神障害のリスクがわずかに増加していることを示している. 特定のIVF手順,特に細胞内プラズマ精子注射 (ICSI) は,両方の状態のリスクを高める可能性があります.

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