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There's no proof that vaccines have not caused autism. The most plausible cause, however, is a combination of many things, including certain ingredients in vaccines

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there has been very extensive research over the past two decades into seeing if there has been any correlation between the two, and it has been found that there has not. Many doctors have been found to say that there can be a correlation between the age of autism diagnosis and the vaccine schedule. this same website also touched on the fact that it has been found that your chance of having autism is 60-90% based on your genome.

https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-causes-autism

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Throughout the last couple of decades, there has been years and years worth of research done and there has not been any correlation found that vaccines cause autism, the only correlation between the two that has been found is a similarity in the more prominent autism diagnoses and rise of vaccines, which is why a lot of people have tried to claim that vaccines cause autism, just like this one.

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This has been a myth that has been circulating for years, however it was debunked many years ago. The myth stems from the 1998 study published The Lancet, written by Andrew Wakefield. His study was flawed for many reasons-- one being that it didn't contain a control group. This means determining whether or not  MMR causes autism is best discovered by studying the occurrence of autism in both vaccinated and unvaccinated children, however this was never tested. This deemed the study to be misleading as well as false. There are many different factors that increase likelihood of a child developing ASD, however none are linked to vaccines. Factors include environmental, biological and genetic factors. This might look like having a genetic disorder/chromosomal conditions such as fragile x syndrome. It could also simply run in your family, so if your sibling has ASD, it's likely you hold the gene as well. While the Wakefield study has been disproven, the study still continues to hold an impact over individuals and the influence of anti-vaxxers.

https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety/vaccines-and-other-conditions/autism

https://www.cdc.gov/autism/about/index.html