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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2017 Apr 12;10(8):1417–1423. doi: 10.1002/aur.1791

Table 1.

Pre-Pubertal Whole Blood Serotonin Levels in Males and Females

Male (N=159) Female (N=23) Total (N=182)
Hyperserotonemia 71 5 76
Hyperserotonemia (%) 44% 21% 42%
Normoserotonemia 88 18 106
WB5-HT Mean (ng/mL) 269 237 264
Standard Deviation 112 96 110
Std. Error of Mean 9 20 8
Skewness 1.47 1.40 1.47
Age: Mean (SD) 7.60 (2.38) 7.34 (2.64) 7.56 (2.41)
Race: (WB5-HT Mean)
African-American 20 (310) 2 (348) 22 (313)
Asian-American 6 (264) 1 (257) 7 (263)
Caucasian 106 (263) 16 (226) 122 (258)
Caucasian/Hispanic 24 (261) 3 (243) 27 (260)
Mixed Race 2 (211) 1 (154) 3 (192)
Native American/Alaskan 1 (341) 0 1 (341)
Ethnicity: (WB5-HT Mean)
Hispanic/Latino 26 (266) 4 (221) 30 (260)
Non Hispanic Latino 133 (269) 19 (240) 152 (265)