He said his research was focused on taking a broader approach to understanding behaviours associated with autism rather than focusing on the label and the autistic spectrum disorder.
Sometimes they are diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, specific learning difficulties, autistic spectrum disorder, or a combination of these conditions and others.
The researchers were looking at the genes affected by one specific group of rare genetic variations that had been found in 181 people with autistic spectrum disorder.
The causes of autism, also known as autistic spectrum disorder, remain largely unknown and are a frequent research topic for geneticists and neuroscientists.
