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Disease Burden and Symptom Structure of Autism in Neurofibromatosis Type 1: A Study of the International NF1-ASD Consortium Team (INFACT).
JAMA psychiatry - 1 Dec 2016
Morris Stephanie M, Acosta Maria T, Garg Shruti, Green Jonathan, Huson Susan, Legius Eric, North Kathryn N, Payne Jonathan M, Plasschaert Ellen, Frazier Thomas W, Weiss Lauren A, Zhang Yi, Gutmann David H, Constantino John N
Abstract excerpt
IMPORTANCE: Recent reports have demonstrated a higher incidence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and substantially elevated autistic trait burden in individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). However, important discrepancies regarding the distribution of autistic traits, sex predominance, and association between ASD symptoms and attentional problems have emerged, and critical features of the ASD phenotype...
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