Blood biomarker tests are being developed to predict neurodevelopmental disorders like autism, indicating mitochondrial dysfunction.

“there are several research groups that I know of that are working on exactly that one is a commercial company I'm not going to name any names but one is a commercial company that has a a a product of a series of biomarkers blood biomarkers that they believe represent ultimately mitochondrial dysfunction all of the different cellular Pathways that can result in mitochondrial dysfunction and or can reflect mitochondrial dysfunction and um and they believe that their test might be able to predict the development of autism”