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Autism spectrum disorders are four to eight times more common in males than in females.
“For example, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) typically appear early in development and are four to eight times more common in males than in females (Fombonne, 2003; Beaudet, 2012).”
From Sex-specific modulation of juvenile social play by vasopressin (2013) · cites this paper as Fombonne, 2003
Variation in facial task performance may be implicated in some children with autism but not others.
“Variation in facial task performance may be implicated in some children with autism 39, but not others 37.”
From Subtyping cognitive profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder using a Functional Random Forest algorithm (2018) · cites this paper as [39]
ASD is one of the most heritable psychiatric disorders, with heritability estimated at about 50% and monozygotic twin concordance rates between 70 and 90%.
“Twin, family and population-based studies have shown ASD to be one of the most heritable of all psychiatric disorders, with heritability estimated at ~50% (see reviews in [119, 310]) and monozygotic twin concordance rates between 70 to 90% [1, 113, 139, 304, 344].”
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- Authors
- Fombonne, E.
- Affiliations
- McGill University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Fombonne, Eric
- ORCID
- Fombonne, Eric
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2003-01-01
- Volume
- 289
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 87
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- OpenAlex
- W2144882747
- Cited by
- 604
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 17.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- JAMA (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family and Disability Support Research
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, prevalence
- MeSH terms
- Autistic Disorder, Child, Child, Preschool, Humans, Population Surveillance, United States, Prevalence
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