Can any /sci/entists confirm or deny that Autism is primarily genetic?

I'm a grad student in genetics, and most of the "evidence" is more aligned with environmental factors and has been for a loooong time when it comes to autism.

There are links in certain situations that occur to mother while pregnant, abnormalities in utero, toxins and metal exposures, many possibilities but no link to an actual gene that causes autism.

tl;dr no, but for the sake of science you could gather 10,000 autistic men and women, mate them, and create a pedigree of autism and check it's occurrence in their progeny

>>8628020
If you're still here also answer this:

What actually is Autism, aside from just a collection of symptoms where does it originate and what does it affect?

>>8628020
Ah, good old eugenics. What fun could be had, were it not for that ethics thing.

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>>8628020
>Surge in autistic children in the past two decades
>just call it environmental factors nobody will notice
I hate people like you

>>8628127
Autism rates rising is caused by increased detection and the definition getting broader.

>>8628139
So like any other disease?
Strong arguments there for a condition that we know nothing about and speculate like we are on wall street.

Simon Baron-Cohen's thesis is that it is a testosterone overflow in utero that causes autism.

Men are predominately more thing-oriented and less social by definition because of testosterone, so it's not a stretch to imagine autism being caused by a too high amount of it.

>>8628159
>tfw autists are more of a man than you
why live?

>>8628020
Sign me up

>>8628297
chuckled

>>8628009
Two words

Shit
Parenting

>>8628159
so autists are the def. of chads?