ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017
Maternal Exposure to Childhood Abuse is Associated with Mate Selection: Implications for Autism in Offspring.
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- Mediators and moderators in the relationship between maternal childhood adversity and children's emotional and behavioural development: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2022Pooled it
- The role of father neglect and abuse in the romantic relationship and mate choice experiences of young women: a phenomenological analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Association between childhood abuse and risk of post-COVID-19 conditions: Results from three large prospective cohort studies.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2025Article
- Association between maternal antidepressant use during pregnancy and the risk of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in offspring.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Association Between Periconceptional Weight of Maternal Grandmothers and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Grandchildren.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Polygenic risk for autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and neuroticism is associated with the experience of childhood abuse.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Article
- Association of Maternal Exposure to Childhood Abuse With Elevated Risk for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Offspring.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Clinical Evidence for Increased Dissociative Experiences in Adults with High Levels of Autistic Traits: A Comparative Study.Journal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD)Article
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Abstract
Maternal experience of childhood abuse has been associated with offspring autism. To explore whether familial tendency towards autistic traits-presumably related to genetic predisposition-accounts for this association, we examined whether women who experienced childhood abuse were more likely to select mates with high levels of autistic traits, and whether parental autistic traits accounted for the association of maternal abuse and offspring autism in 209 autism cases and 833 controls. Maternal childhood abuse was strongly associated with high paternal autistic traits (severe abuse, OR = 3.98, 95% CI = 1.26, 8.31). Maternal and paternal autistic traits accounted for 21% of the association between maternal abuse and offspring autism. These results provide evidence that childhood abuse affects mate selection, with implications for offspring health.
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