Pregnancy and Birth Complications in Autism and Liability to the Broader Autism Phenotype

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 572-579

  Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie ^a   Szatmari, Peter ^a   Jones, Marshall B ^c   Bryson, Susan E ^b   MacLean, Joanna E ^a   Mahoney, William J ^a   Bartolucci, Giampiero ^a   Tuff, Lawrence ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Birth complications; Genetics; Pregnancy complications

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BIRTH INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; CHILD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LABOR COMPLICATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036584117     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-200205000-00015     Document Type: Article

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