Researchers have identified a metabolic way to detect autism spectrum disorder in some children.
Autism is a neurological and developmental disorder that is prevalent in 1 in 59 children.
According to UPI, the discovery potentially paves the way for a biomarker blood test.
UC Davis and NeuroPointDX researchers conducted the Children's Autism Metabolome Project.
Their blood test was able to detect about 16.7% of children with autism spectrum disorder.