Ronald, Angelica and Happé, F. and Dworzynski, K. and Bolton, P. and Plomin, R. (2010) Exploring the relation between prenatal and neonatal complications and later autistic-Like features in a representative community sample of twins. Child Development 81 (1), pp. 166-182. ISSN 0009-3920.
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Prenatal and neonatal events were reported by parents of 13,690 eighteen-month-old twins enrolled in the Twins Early Development Study, a representative community sample born in England and Wales. At ages 7–8, parents and teachers completed questionnaires on social and nonsocial autistic-like features and parents completed the Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test. Correlations between prenatal and neonatal events and autistic-like features were weak, both in the whole sample (r = .00–.07) and at the 5% quantitative extreme (phenotypic group correlations = .01–.11), after controlling for socioeconomic status and cognitive ability. Neonatal problems showed modest heritability (13%–14%) and significant shared and nonshared environmental influences (55%–59% and 28%–31%, respectively). Differences in identical twins' neonatal problems correlated weakly with their difference scores on autistic-like features (r = .01–.06).
| Item Type: | Article |
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| School or Research Centre: | Birkbeck Schools and Research Centres > School of Science > Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2010 11:10 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2013 12:19 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2547 |
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