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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 20.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2011 Dec 2;42(5):1091–1102. doi: 10.1017/S0033291711002339

Table 3.

Odds ratios 100g increase in birth weight for twin-pairs discordant for ASD and ASD-like traits on the A-TAC using conditional logistic regression.

ASD Restricted/
Repetitive
Language Social
Overall No. discordant pairs* 78 375 309 78
OR 100g increase in BW (95% CI) 0.87 (0.78, 0.96) 0.95 (0.90, 0.99) 0.90 (0.85, 0.95) 0.91 (0.82, 1.00)
MZ No. discordant pairs* 20 108 106 25
OR 100g increase in BW (95% CI) 0.86 (0.76, 0.97) 0.93 (0.85, 1.03) 0.85 (0.77, 0.95) 0.88 (0.73, 1.06)
DZ No. discordant pairs* 44 214 161 44
OR 100g increase in BW (95% CI) 0.86 (0.74, 1.00) 0.94 (0.88, 1.01) 0.91 (0.85, 0.98) 0.91 (0.78, 1.05)
Males No. discordant pairs 58 239 201 53
OR 100g increase in BW (95% CI) 0.89 (0.80, 0.99) 0.94 (0.89, 0.99) 0.92 (0.87, 0.98) 0.94 (0.84, 1.05)
Females No. discordant pairs* 20 136 108 25
OR 100g increase in BW (95% CI) 0.72 (0.51, 1.00) 0.96 (0.89, 1.05) 0.85 (0.76, 0.95) 0.84 (0.69, 1.02)

BW=Birth Weight; OR=Odds Ratio; CI=Confidence Interval;

*

Discordant for ASD (or component feature) measured by A-TAC cut-off scores;

p≤0.05;

p≤ 0.01