“Our study shows that there is no convincing evidence that any of these other diagnoses in the mother can cause autism,” senior researcher Magdalena Janecka, an associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, said in a news release.

While many studies have reported a link between a mother's health condition during pregnancy and her child's risk of autism, a new study shows that nearly all of these "associations" can otherwise be explained by factors such as genetics,