{"id":29,"date":"2008-02-19T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/2008\/02\/19\/q-frax-testing-for-autistic-boys\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:58:36","slug":"q-frax-testing-for-autistic-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2008\/02\/19\/q-frax-testing-for-autistic-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: FRAX testing for Autistic Boys?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bob_phillips.allmail.net\/frax.jpg\" alt=\"FMR1 gene\" align=\"right\" height=\"90\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"190\" \/>You diagnose a 5-year-old with Autistic spectrum disorder. His examination is unremarkable and there is no family history of learning difficulties. Should you perform a molecular genetic screen for FMR1 mutations (fragile X)?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You can always wonder about testing for things, I think. As I mentioned elsewhere, you also need to think if the test is accurate and useful.<\/p>\n<p>What Dr Kelly &amp; pals at the  Mary Sheridan Centre for Child Health in London have wondered is should they be undertaking FRAX testing. It&#8217;s certainly possible, but costs money &#8211; and what benefits can it produce?<\/p>\n<p>What does the winder world think &#8211; do you test? Don&#8217;t you test? Why (both ways!)?<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You diagnose a 5-year-old with Autistic spectrum disorder. His examination is unremarkable and there is no family history of learning difficulties. Should you perform a molecular genetic screen for FMR1 mutations (fragile X)? [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2008\/02\/19\/q-frax-testing-for-autistic-boys\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,81,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-diagnostics","category-fragile-x"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}