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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Mar 2;72(3):215–220. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.01.026

Table 1.

Comparison of children with autism (n = 101) and typically developing children (n = 35)

Characteristic TYP AUT p Value
Male/Female, n/n 23/12 82/19 .06
Nonverbal DQ, Mean ± SD 108.2 ± 13.0 59.1 ± 18.3 <.001*
Age, Mean ± SD 4.0 ± 1.7 4.5 ± 1.4 .14
Total CC Midsagittal Area, Mean ± SD 380 ± 72 368 ± 70 .40
ADOS Total (SA+RRB), Mean ± SD 1.4 ± 1.5 19.5 ± 3.5 <.001*

TYP, typically developing children; AUT, autism; DQ, developmental quotient; CC, corpus callosum; ADOS, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule; SA, social affect; RRB, restrictive repetitive behaviors. ADOS scores were obtained on 128 of the 136 children, 8 children were tested using the toddler version of the ADOS.

*

p < 0.05