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Subgroups in autism: are there behavioural phenotypes typical of underlying medical conditions?
Author(s) -
GILLBERG C.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1992.tb00508.x
Subject(s) - autism , tuberous sclerosis , neurofibromatosis , rett syndrome , infantile autism , neurodevelopmental disorder , developmental disorder , psychology , psychiatry , medicine , pediatrics , pathology , genetics , biology , gene
. Fifty‐nine cases with infantile autism/autistic disorder were subclassified according to associated medical condition (fragile‐X, tuberous sclerosis, neurofibromatosis, hypo‐melanosis of Ito, Moebius syndrome, Rett syndrome, and a ‘new’ syndrome associated with a marker chromosome). It was concluded that, even within a group of cases fitting currently accepted criteria for autism, there is considerable variation in symptom profile depending on the exact type of associated medical condition.