ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2014
Subthreshold traits of the broad autistic spectrum are distributed across different subgroups in parents, but not siblings, of probands with autism.
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- Broader autism phenotype, the default mode network, and brain entropy: A network-level hypothesis.Research in neurodiversity · 2026Article
- Subthreshold Autism and ADHD: A Brief Narrative Review for Frontline Clinicians.Pediatric reports · 2025Review
- Psychometric Properties of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient for Assessing Low and High Levels of Autistic Traits in College Students.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2017Article
- Investigating the Evidence of Behavioral, Cognitive, and Psychiatric Endophenotypes in Autism: A Systematic Review.Autism research and treatment · 2017Review
- Broad autism phenotype features of Chinese parents with autistic children and their associations with severity of social impairment in probands.BMC psychiatry · 2015Article
- Broader Autism Phenotype in Siblings of Children with ASD--A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2015Review
- Dimensionality of childhood psychopathology and the challenge of integration into clinical practice.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2014Article
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Abstract
Autism is a categorical developmental disorder characterized by impairment in socialization, communication, and by restricted and circumscribed interests. Several authors have described the presence of subthreshold autistic traits in the general population, pervasive developmental disorders representing the extreme end of their distribution. In this study, we explored the presence of autistic traits in siblings and parents of a proband with autism, and in siblings and parents of a normally developing child, using the previously validated self-report French Autism Quotient, an adaptation of the AQ developed by S. Baron-Cohen. Scores were distributed between two main factors, F1 corresponding to socialization and communication, F2 to imagination and rigidity. Here, we show that both parents and siblings of a child with autism have more symptomatic scores in the domains of communication and socialization. In addition, we show that in these families the parents, but not the siblings, are distributed across different subcategories, according to their scores for the F1 and F2 domains. We hypothesize that these different subgroups may correspond to different underlying genetic mechanisms.
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