I have a week-old nephew in Mississippi, and my brother tells me that their pediatrician is asking a lot of strange questions when they started discussing a vaccination schedule for the little guy. He is going to have them take a 23AndMe genetics test (which is apparently a consumer-grade test and not a medical one) to look for some genetic variants for autism that he says can be "activated" by vaccines.I'm not a geneticist or physician, but I did take several elective genetics courses in college, and this pediatrician sounds extremely sketchy to me. I know that vaccinations are controversial among some members of the public, but isn't the US medical consensus that vaccinations are not conclusively linked to autism? And why would this physician order a consumer-grade genetic test? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2xApjhb
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