Article
A broader phenotype of autism: the clinical spectrum in twins.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines - 1 Oct 1996
Le Couteur A, Bailey A, Goode S, Pickles A, Robertson S, Gottesman I, Rutter M
Abstract excerpt
The diagnostic boundaries of the behavioural phenotype for autism were examined in 28 MZ pairs and 20 DZ same-sex twin pairs, where one or both twins had autism. In the non-autistic cotwin (i.e. in twin pairs discordant for autism) it was common to find language impairments in childhood and socia...
Topics
- Activities of Daily Living
- Analysis of Variance
- Autistic Disorder
- Communication Disorders
- Diseases in Twins
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Genetic Heterogeneity
- Humans
- Intelligence
- Interview, Psychological
- Male
- Phenotype
- Social Adjustment
- Social Behavior Disorders
- Twins, Dizygotic
- Twins, Monozygotic
- United Kingdom