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Factors influencing the severity of behavioral phenotype in autism spectrum disorders: Implications for research.
Psychiatry research - 1 Mar 2018
Zou Mingyang, Sun Caihong, Wang Jia, Kang Jing, Xu Zhanbin, Ma Yongjuan, Chen Lei, Zhang Xinxi, Xia Wei, Wu Lijie
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The phenotypic heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) presents particular research challenges in the assessment of symptom severity, while the standardized Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) scores present a severity metric, namely calibrated severity scores (CSS) that are relatively impervious to individual characteristics. To date, no studies have examined the convergent validity of CSS in...
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