Anne Skomorowsky

Clinical instructor
New York University

Skomorowsky is a clinical instructor in psychiatry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an attending psychiatrist at NYU Langone Hospital. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and Slate.

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Spectrum

By Anne Skomorowsky

21 April 2022

14 min read

Book cover conceptual illustration of chromosome superimposed with genetic tree.

A whisper of autism: Fragile X carriers and the autism phenotype

Among people who carry the fragile X premutation, about 14 percent of boys and 5 percent of girls meet the criteria for autism, but the ‘broad autism phenotype’ may be far more common.

Spectrum

A whisper of autism: Fragile X carriers and the autism phenotype

By Anne Skomorowsky

21 April 2022 | 14 min read

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