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Novel clustering of items from the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised to define phenotypes within autism spectrum disorders.
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research - 1 Apr 2009
Hu Valerie W, Steinberg Mara E
Abstract excerpt
Heterogeneity in phenotypic presentation of Autism spectrum disorders has been cited as one explanation for the difficulty in pinpointing specific genes involved in autism. Recent studies have attempted to reduce the "noise" in genetic and other biological data by reducing the phenotypic heterogeneity of the sample population. The current study employs multiple clustering algorithms on 123 item scores from the...
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