Exploring the relation between prenatal and neonatal complications and later autistic-like features in a representative community sample of twins

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 166-182

  Ronald, Angelica ^a   Happé, Francesca ^a   Dworzynski, Katharina ^a   Bolton, Patrick ^a   Plomin, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PARENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; TWINS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; TWINS; WALES;

EID: 76749085813     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01387.x     Document Type: Article

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