ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2005
Brief report: autistic traits in twins vs. non-twins--a preliminary study.
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- Screening for Autism with the SRS and SCQ: Variations across Demographic, Developmental and Behavioral Factors in Preschool Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2017Article
- Investigating the validation of the Chinese Mandarin version of the Social Responsiveness Scale in a Mainland China child population.BMC psychiatry · 2017Article
- Academic performance of opposite-sex and same-sex twins in adolescence: A Danish national cohort study.Hormones and behavior · 2015Article
- Parental social responsiveness and risk of autism spectrum disorder in offspring.JAMA psychiatry · 2014Article
- Validity of the social responsiveness scale to differentiate between autism spectrum disorders and disruptive behaviour disorders.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2014Article
- Quantitative autistic traits ascertained in a national survey of 22 529 Japanese schoolchildren.Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2013Article
- Alcohol dependence in same-sex and opposite-sex twins.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2012Article
- Validation of proposed DSM-5 criteria for autism spectrum disorder.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2012Article
- The broader autism phenotype and its implications on the etiology and treatment of autism spectrum disorders.Autism research and treatment · 2011Article
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Abstract
Previous studies have suggested that among affected sib pairs with autism there is an increase in the frequency of twins over what would be expected in comparison to the prevalence of twins in the general population. In this study we sought to determine whether sub-threshold autistic traits were more pronounced in twins than in non-twins. The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) was administered in an epidemiologic twin sample (n=802) and in a separate population-based sample of non-twins ascertained from a local school district (n=255). For males (but not females), the mean SRS score was significantly higher among twins than among non-twins. As has been suggested for autism, twin status may incur increased liability to subthreshold autistic symptomatology, particularly in males.
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