Epilepsy and Other Neurological Diseases in the Parents of Children with Infantile Autism. A Case Control Study

Autor/inn/en	Mouridsen, Svend Erik; Rich, Bente; Isager, Torben
Titel	Epilepsy and Other Neurological Diseases in the Parents of Children with Infantile Autism. A Case Control Study
Quelle	In: Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 39 (2008) 1, S.1-8 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-398X
DOI	10.1007/s10578-007-0062-9
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Epilepsy; Autism; Parents; Comparative Analysis; Neurological Impairments; Foreign Countries; Fathers; Genetics; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Epilepsie; Autismus; Eltern; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Ausland; Humangenetik; Dänemark
Abstract	In order to study the broader phenotype of infantile autism (IA) we compared the rates and types of epilepsy and other neurological diseases in the parents of 111 consecutively admitted patients with IA with a matched control group of parents of 330 children from the general population. All participants were screened through the nationwide Danish National Hospital Register (DNHR). We inquired about epilepsy and other neurological diseases during an observation period of 27 years. A similar proportion of case- and control mothers had a diagnosis of any neurological disease, 9.9% vs 10.6%. For case fathers the proportion was 5.7% vs 9.7%. No single neurological disease was significantly more frequent among parents of persons with IA. Our study lent support to the notion that epilepsy and other neurological diseases are not part of the broader IA phenotype. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10