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Symptoms of autism spectrum disorder and anxiety: shared familial transmission and cross-assortative mating.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines - 1 Jun 2016
Duvekot Jorieke, van der Ende Jan, Constantino John N, Verhulst Frank C, Greaves-Lord Kirstin
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BACKGROUND: In order to shed more light on the frequent co-occurrence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and anxiety in children, the aims of the study were (a) to examine whether ASD and anxiety share familial transmission indicated by cross-symptom associations between parental and children's symptoms (e.g., parental anxiety predicting children's ASD) in addition to associations for similar symptoms; (b) to...
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