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[Aggregation of social deficits and psychiatric disorders in parents of children with autism: toward a temperamental link?].
L'Encephale - 1 Apr 2011
Goussé V, Galéra C, Bouvard M, Michel G
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BACKGROUND: Autism is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders with heterogeneous phenotypic expression. Twin and family-based studies have demonstrated the importance of genetic factors in the etiology of these disorders. The pioneering work of Folstein and Rutter (1977), showing concordance - 82 % in non affected monozygotic twins and 10 % in non affected dizygotic twins - for cognitive deficits (mostly...
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