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Family History of Eating Disorder and the Broad Autism Phenotype in Autism.
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research - 1 Sept 2020
Barrionuevo Bianca A, Chowdhury Aneesa R, Lee Joycelyn M, Dueker Nicole D, Martin Eden R, Pericak-Vance Margaret A, Cuccaro Michael
Abstract excerpt
Autism features occur frequently among individuals with eating disorders (ED). This co-occurrence is not well understood but there is speculation that select traits (e.g., rigidity) are common to both autism and ED. To explore the co-occurrence of autistic traits and ED features, we used the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC; N = 2,623 families) to test whether first-degree relatives of individuals with autism with...
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