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Autism, affective and other psychiatric disorders: patterns of familial aggregation.
Psychological medicine - 1 Mar 1998
Bolton P F, Pickles A, Murphy M, Rutter M
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BACKGROUND: The liability to autism confers a risk for a range of more subtle autistic-like impairments, but it remains unclear whether it also confers a risk for other psychiatric disturbances. METHODS: To investigate this, we studied the pattern of familial aggregation of psychiatric disorders in relatives of 99 autistic and 36 Down's probands, using family history and direct interview measures. RESULTS: Family...
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