Variation in season of birth in singleton and multiple births concordant for autism spectrum disorders

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 172-179

  Lee, Li Ching ^a   Newschaffer, Craig J ^a   Lessler, Justin T ^a   Lee, Brian K ^a   Shah, Rashmi ^b   Zimmerman, Andrew W ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD); Concordance; Multiple births; Season of birth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NUTRITION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VIRUS INFECTION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIRTH RATE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE BIRTH OFFSPRING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREGNANCY; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 43149083476     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2007.00919.x     Document Type: Article

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