Researchers Discover Solutions to Gender Bias in Autism Diagnoses - Neuroscience News

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Summary: Study reports girls and boys show similar rates of concern for ASD and identifies several biases contributing to the inflated sex ratio for autism diagnosis.

The findings could help with the early identification of girls on the autism spectrum.

Published in Biological Psychiatry, a multidisciplinary study led by the University of Minnesota demonstrated that an equal number of girls and boys can be identified as having concerns for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) when screened earlier, correcting large gender differences in current diagnoses.

“Our research shows that girls and boys show similar rates of concerns for ASD and identifies some of the biases contributing to the inflated sex ratios.

Using data from the Infant Brain Imaging Study Network, the study used a less-biased sample that tracked a group of children at higher likelihood of developing ASD (e.g., infant siblings of autistic children) from six to 60 months of age. .

The research team looked at whether girls and boys presented with similar symptoms and found subtle differences in the structure of core symptoms of ASD.