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Empathizing, systemizing, and autistic traits: latent structure in individuals with autism, their parents, and general population controls.
Journal of abnormal psychology - 1 May 2013
Grove Rachel, Baillie Andrew, Allison Carrie, Baron-Cohen Simon, Hoekstra Rosa A
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The search for genes involved in autism spectrum conditions (ASC) may have been hindered by the assumption that the different symptoms that define the condition can be attributed to the same causal mechanism. Instead the social and nonsocial aspects of ASC may have distinct causes at genetic, cognitive, and neural levels. It has been posited that the core features of ASC can be explained by a deficit in...
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