Integrating causal discovery and clinically-relevant insights to explore directional relationships between autistic features, sex at birth, and cognitive abilities
Our investigation unveiled sex-specific directional relationships that inform our understanding of differing needs and outcomes associated with biological sex in autism and may serve to further development of targeted interventions.
Authors
- Sunday M. Francis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4369-0331)
- Suma Jacob (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7434-7398)
- Eric Rawls (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-9961)
- Christine A. Conelea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2791-9802)
- Nicola M. Grissom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3630-8130)
- Angela Tseng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4838-9452)
- Erich Kummerfeld (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5342-7743)
- Sisi Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2956-6844)
Institutions
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Psychological Medicine
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291725000571
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.72
Funders
- University of Minnesota
- Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Minnesota