I wonder how this ties into the study on autism this week that revealed mothers with the lowest vitamin D levels during pregnancy also have the highest rates of children with autism symptomatology.

It was only an association and not causal but one wonders given the pleiomorphic nature of vitamin D if it might play a regulatory role in the synthesis of this protein during brain development.

And the Ontario government still won't cover vitamin D testing during pregnancy despite  mounting evidence that low maternal vitamin D is related to the child's risk of autism and schizophrenia.