Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Lorna Lopez:

Yes. That is correct. In many international research studies where families and children take part in genetic sequencing projects, that is approximately the diagnostic rate where one would get an association of a genetic variation that might explain the cause of autism. In general-----