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Siblings of children with ASDs more likely to have psychiatric disorders
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30132
Subject(s) - autism , proband , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , bipolar disorder , psychology , autism spectrum disorder , medicine , clinical psychology , cognition , genetics , mutation , gene , biology
While familial clustering of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) is established, little is known about siblings of people with ASDs in particular. So researchers looked at the risk for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders among full siblings of probands with ASDs.