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. 2017 Aug 16;8:45. doi: 10.1186/s13229-017-0162-8

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants

	Control group	ASD group	Statistics
	(N = 26)	(N = 24)	p
Age (years)	25.7 (6.8)	29.5 (4.3)	0.01^a
Gender (female)	2 (7.7%)	3 (12.5%)	0.57^b
Handedness (right)	2 (7.7%)	2 (8.3%)	0.93^b
Smoking (current smoker)	2 (7.7%)	3 (12.5%)	0.57^b
Estimated full-scale IQ	105.5 (9.3)	108.0 (12.1)	0.57^a
AQ total	16.2 (7.0)	34.4 (5.2)	< 0.01^a
Social skills	2.7 (2.9)	8.8 (3.0)	< 0.01^a
Details/patterns	3.5 (1.7)	4.7 (2.2)	0.04^a
Communication/mindreading	1.1 (1.5)	4.3 (1.3)	< 0.01^a

Standard deviations or percentages in parentheses

AQ Autism-Spectrum Quotient, IQ intelligence quotient

^aMann–Whitney test

^bTwo-tailed chi-square test