Paternal Age and Risk of Autism in an Ethnically Diverse, Non-Industrialized Setting: Aruba

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  van Balkom, Ingrid D C ^a,b,c   Bresnahan, Michaeline ^d,e   Vuijk, Pieter Jelle ^f   Hubert, Jan ^g   Susser, Ezra ^d,e,h   Hoek, Hans W ^c,d,i  

^a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic   (Aruba)

^b Lentis Psychiatric Institute   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g Department of Public Health of Aruba   (Aruba)

^h College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

ⁱ PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARUBA; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATERNAL AGE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PROGENY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATERNAL AGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; WEST INDIES;

EID: 84866270493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045090     Document Type: Article

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