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Exaggerated CpH methylation in the autism-affected brain. [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundThe etiology of autism, a complex, heritable, neurodevelopmental disorder, remains largely unexplained. Given the unexplained risk and recent evidence supporting a role for epigenetic mechanisms in the development of autism, we explored the ...
Arking, Dan E, Ellis, Shannon E, Gupta, Simone, Moes, Anna, West, Andrew B   +4 more
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Cohort profile: the Australian Longitudinal Study of Adults with Autism (ALSAA)

BMJ Open, 2019
​Purpose There is a significant knowledge gap regarding the lives of adults on the autism spectrum. Some literature suggests significant health and mental health inequalities for autistic adults, yet there is a lack of comprehensive longitudinal studies ...
Julian Trollor, Samuel Arnold, Kitty-Rose Foley, Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Amanda L Richdale, Mirko Uljarevic, Lauren P Lawson, Ru Ying Cai, Torbjorn Falkmer, Marita Falkmer, Nick G Lennox, Anna Urbanowicz   +11 more
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Reduced face identity aftereffects in relatives of children with autism. [PDF]

, 2012
Autism is a pervasive developmental condition with complex aetiology. To aid the discovery of genetic mechanisms, researchers have turned towards identifying potential endophenotypes - subtle neurobiological or neurocognitive traits present in ...
Fiorentini, Chiara, Gray, Laura, Jeffery, Linda, Pellicano, Liz, Rhodes, Gillian   +4 more
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A Subset of Autism-associated Genes Regulate the Structural Stability of Neurons

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2016
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) comprises a range of neurological conditions that affect individuals’ ability to communicate and interact with others. People with ASD often exhibit marked qualitative difficulties in social interaction, communication, and ...
Yu-Chih Lin, Jeannine A Frei, Michaela B.C. Kilander, Wenjuan Shen, Gene J Blatt   +4 more
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Sex differences in the temporal dynamics of autistic children’s natural conversations

Molecular Autism, 2023
Background Autistic girls are underdiagnosed compared to autistic boys, even when they experience similar clinical impact. Research suggests that girls present with distinct symptom profiles across a variety of domains, such as language, which may ...
Sunghye Cho, Meredith Cola, Azia Knox, Maggie Rose Pelella, Alison Russell, Aili Hauptmann, Maxine Covello, Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, Robert T. Schultz, Julia Parish-Morris   +10 more
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Is anyone looking at me? Direct gaze detection in children with and without autism [PDF]

, 2008
Atypical processing of eye contact is one of the significant characteristics of individuals with autism, but the mechanism underlying atypical direct gaze processing is still unclear. This study used a visual search paradigm to examine whether the facial
Ashwin, Atsushi Senju, Baranek, Baron-Cohen, Chun, Clifford, Conty, Csibra, Dalton, Gale, Gale, Grice, Happé, Happé, Hiroo Osanai, Hobson, Hood, Jenkins, Johnson, Joseph, Kleinke, Klin, Kylliäinen, Kylliäinen, Lahaie, Langton, Langton, Lopez, Maestro, Martin, Martin, Martin, Mason, Miller, Miller, Mottron, Neumann, Nichols, Osterling, Osterling, O’Riordan, O’Riordan, O’Riordan, Pelphrey, Perrett, Perrett, Plaisted, Ratcliff, Raven, Robson, Robson, Rouse, Sasson, Schultz, Senju, Senju, Senju, Senju, Senju, Seyama, Smith, Speer, Spezio, Sugishita, Teunisse, Toshikazu Hasegawa, Treisman, Valentine, van der Geest, von Grünau, Vuilleumier, Werner, Wolfe, Wollaston, Yin, Yoshikuni Tojo, Yukiko Kikuchi   +76 more
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Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals

Nature Communications, 2020
It is unclear if rates of autism and other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses are elevated in transgender and gender-diverse individuals compared to cisgender individuals.
Varun Warrier, David M. Greenberg, Elizabeth Weir, Clara Buckingham, Paula Smith, Meng-Chuan Lai, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen   +7 more
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Integrated systems analysis reveals a molecular network underlying autism spectrum disorders. [PDF]

, 2014
Autism is a complex disease whose etiology remains elusive. We integrated previously and newly generated data and developed a systems framework involving the interactome, gene expression and genome sequencing to identify a protein interaction module with
Euskirchen, Ghia, Hallmayer, Joachim, Li, Jingjing, Ma, Zhihai, Shi, Minyi, Snyder, Michael, Urban, Alexander, Zhao, Shuchun, Ziskin, Jennifer   +8 more
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A comparative study of autistic and non-autistic women’s experience of motherhood

Molecular Autism, 2020
Background Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental difference and disability, yet there is limited research examining parenting in autistic mothers. Objective To explore autistic mothers’ experience of the perinatal period and parenthood.
A. L. Pohl, S. K. Crockford, M. Blakemore, C. Allison, S. Baron-Cohen   +4 more
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Evidence against the “normalization” prediction of the early brain overgrowth hypothesis of autism

Molecular Autism, 2020
Background The frequently cited Early Overgrowth Hypothesis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) postulates that there is overgrowth of the brain in the first 2 years of life, which is followed by a period of arrested growth leading to normalized brain ...
Lisa D. Yankowitz, John D. Herrington, Benjamin E. Yerys, Joseph A. Pereira, Juhi Pandey, Robert T. Schultz   +5 more
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