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>>geox+(OP)
Only 34 girls with autism were included in the study that concludes it is linked to autism in males and not females, while the study included 203 males with autism.

The control side was 54 males without autism and 67 females without autism.

Maybe 34 is enough to get that statistical conclusion, but it seems pretty small. It's based on recall of if they had -frequent diet drinks- (edit: cutoff variable was one single diet drink per day) during pregnancy, so it might be being determined by like 15 people for the female side that were diet drink users and more for the controls, further divided by 6 different demographic subsets? Will try and find that number.

>>cma+L4
For various reasons autism is often under-diagnosed in women, so I wouldn't be surprised that if this effect holds up it's not actually gender-specific. That's a bunch of big "ifs" though.