Birth seasonality in developmentally disabled children.
26 children with diagnoses of autism and 22 children with diagnoses of childhood schizophrenia or a variant thereof were compared on the variable of winter birth. Analyses showed that autistic children had a higher proportion of winter births than schizophrenic children. These findings are related to other research linking winter birth to negative-syndrome adult schizophrenia.
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D000293:Adolescent; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012561:Schizophrenia, Childhood / Q000209:etiology*; D012621:Seasons