The female protective effect against autism spectrum disorder

• Egile Nagusiak: Emilie M. Wigdor (Egilea), Daniel J. Weiner (Egilea), Jakob Grove (Egilea), Jack M. Fu (Egilea), Wesley K. Thompson (Egilea), Caitlin E. Carey (Egilea), Nikolas Baya (Egilea), Celia van der Merwe (Egilea), Raymond K. Walters (Egilea), F. Kyle Satterstrom (Egilea), Duncan S. Palmer (Egilea), Anders Rosengren (Egilea), Jonas Bybjerg-Grauholm (Egilea), David M. Hougaard (Egilea), Preben Bo Mortensen (Egilea), Mark J. Daly (Egilea), Michael E. Talkowski (Egilea), Stephan J. Sanders (Egilea), Somer L. Bishop (Egilea), Anders D. Børglum (Egilea), Elise B. Robinson (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Elsevier, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is diagnosed three to four times more frequently in males than in females. Genetic studies of rare variants support a female protective effect (FPE) against ASD. However, sex differences in common inherited genetic risk for ASD are less studied, particularly w...