Maternal and paternal age are jointly associated with childhood Autism in Jamaica

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1928-1938

  Rahbar, Mohammad H ^a,b   Samms Vaughan, Maureen ^c   Loveland, Katherine A ^d   Pearson, Deborah A ^d   Bressler, Jan ^a   Chen, Zhongxue ^e   Ardjomand Hessabi, Manouchehr ^e   Shakespeare Pellington, Sydonnie ^c   Grove, Megan L ^a   Beecher, Compton ^c   Bloom, Kari ^e   Boerwinkle, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Maternal age; Multicollinearity; Multivariate General Linear Models; Paternal age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PATERNAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAMAICA; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PATERNAL AGE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84866729747     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-011-1438-z     Document Type: Article

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