The UCLA-University of Utah Epidemiologic Survey of Autism: the Etiologic Role of Rare Diseases

Overview

Journal Am J Psychiatry

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 1990 Dec 1

PMID 2244638

Citations 28

Authors

E R Ritvo

B J Freeman

C Pingree

W R Jenson

W M McMahon

P B Petersen

L B Jorde

A Mo

A Ritvo

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Abstract

Twelve rare diseases known to cause CNS pathology were found in 26 (11%) of 233 autistic probands identified during a recent epidemiologic survey of Utah. These 26 probands had significantly lower mean IQs than the remaining patients (43 versus 60) but similar sex distribution and prevalence of abnormal EEGs and seizures. The rarity and diversity of these 12 diseases make it highly unlikely that they randomly occurred with autism. Their presence in this epidemiologic survey is the most compelling evidence to date to support the hypothesis that different diseases producing different types of CNS pathology can play an etiologic role in autism.

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