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Autism and fetal androgens: Commentary on Levy et al. (Lancet 2009; 374: 1627-38)

2021-02-01

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<p>Children with autism or high-functioning autism (Asperger syndrome), as well as their unaffected first-degree relatives (siblings, mothers, and fathers), have conspicuously lower (hypermasculinised) 2D:4D than healthy general populations controls. This finding has been independently replicated in by now some ten further reports. All in all, this points to a role of altered sex-hormone profiles, already arising...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ze8ps

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