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| J N ConstantinoSummaryAffiliation: Washington University School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Autistic traits in the general population: a twin studyJohn N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:524-30. 2003....- CSF 5-HIAA and family history of antisocial personality disorder in newbornsJ N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Psychiatry 154:1771-3. 1997..The relationship between genetic liability for antisocial behavior and CSF 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in newborns was explored... - Reciprocal social behavior in children with and without pervasive developmental disordersJ N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 21:2-11. 2000..They may also be useful in genetic-linkage studies of autistic spectrum disorders... - Genetic structure of reciprocal social behaviorJ N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washigton University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Psychiatry 157:2043-5. 2000..The study examined the genetic structure of deficits in reciprocal social behavior in an epidemiologic sample of male twins... - Application of the seven-factor model of personality to early childhoodJohn N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8134, 660 South Euclid Ave, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
Psychiatry Res 109:229-43. 2002..Future studies are warranted to test the extent to which early childhood measurements of the seven factors might predict the development of personality disorders... - Deficits in reciprocal social behavior in male twins: evidence for a genetically independent domain of psychopathologyJohn N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8134, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:458-67. 2003.... - Validation of a brief quantitative measure of autistic traits: comparison of the social responsiveness scale with the autism diagnostic interview-revisedJohn N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 33:427-33. 2003..Q. and exhibited inter-rater reliability on the order of 0.8. The SRS is a valid quantitative measure of autistic traits, feasible for use in clinical settings and for large-scale research studies of autism spectrum conditions... - Brief report: autistic traits in twins vs. non-twins--a preliminary studyAlexander Ho
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 35:129-33. 2005..As has been suggested for autism, twin status may incur increased liability to subthreshold autistic symptomatology, particularly in males... 
Familial aggregation of quantitative autistic traits in multiplex versus simplex autismYamini V Virkud
Departments of Psychiatry, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 150:328-34. 2009..Characterization of QAT and other endophenotypes among close relatives may be useful for reducing sample heterogeneity in future genetic and neurobiologic studies of autism...- Monoamine metabolites in 'leftover' newborn human cerebrospinal fluid--a potential resource for biobehavioral researchJ N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
Psychiatry Res 65:129-42. 1996..Leftover CSF is a readily available resource for measurements of monoamine metabolites (and possibly other CSF constituents) in population-based samples of human newborns... - Rapid quantitative assessment of autistic social impairment by classroom teachersJohn N Constantino
Program of Occupational Therapy, Washington University in St Louis, 660 S Euclid, Campus Box 8134, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:1668-76. 2007..In this study, we compared teachers' ratings of autistic symptomatology with those derived from parents, expert clinicians, and trained raters... 
Co-occurrence of motor problems and autistic symptoms in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderAngela M Reiersen
Department of Psychiatry Box 8134, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110 1093, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:662-72. 2008..To investigate the relation between parent reports of motor problems and clinically significant autistic symptoms in children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...- Evidence for shared genetic influences on self-reported ADHD and autistic symptoms in young adult Australian twinsAngela M Reiersen
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis 63110, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 11:579-85. 2008..72. Our results suggest that in young adults, a substantial proportion of the genetic influences on self-reported autistic and ADHD symptoms may be shared between the two disorders... - Developmental course of autistic social impairment in malesJohn N Constantino
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Dev Psychopathol 21:127-38. 2009..Such measurements can serve as reliable indices of phenotypic severity for genetic and neurobiologic studies, and have potential utility for ascertaining incremental response to intervention... - Brief report: Under-representation of African americans in autism genetic research: a rationale for inclusion of subjects representing diverse family structuresClaudia L Hilton
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 40:633-9. 2010..Comprehensive efforts-including expansion of eligibility to families of diverse structure-are warranted to facilitate the inclusion of African American children in biomedical research... - Effects of child maltreatment and inherited liability on antisocial development: an official records studyMelissa Jonson-Reid
George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:321-32; quiz 431. 2010.... - Autistic traits in a population-based ADHD twin sampleAngela M Reiersen
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110 1093, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:464-72. 2007..This study assesses whether children with ADHD selected from the general twin population have elevated levels of autistic traits... - Mental representations of attachment in identical female twins with and without conduct problemsJohn N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Ave, Campus Box 8134, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 37:65-72. 2006..In this sample of twins with and without histories of Conduct Disorder, mental representations of attachment appear to be highly familial, i.e., strongly influenced by either shared environmental factors, genetic factors, or both... - The factor structure of autistic traitsJohn N Constantino
Washington University School of Medicine, Missouri 63110, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:719-26. 2004..The identification of 'endophenotypes' of the autistic syndrome may be very useful for genetic and neurobiologic studies of autism, but only if they represent truly independent sub domains of the disorder... - Intergenerational transmission of subthreshold autistic traits in the general populationJohn N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:655-60. 2005..Subthreshold autistic social impairments are known to aggregate in the family members of autistic probands; therefore, we conducted this study to examine the intergenerational transmission of such traits in the general population... - Clarifying the associations between language and social development in autism: a study of non-native phoneme recognitionJohn N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8134, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 37:1256-63. 2007..Although earlier in autistic development there may exist qualitative deficits in this specific aspect of AIP, they are not an enduring characteristic of verbal school-aged children with ASD... - Autistic social impairment in the siblings of children with pervasive developmental disordersJohn N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave, Campus Box 8134, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:294-6. 2006..Sibling recurrence risk in autism has been estimated to be approximately 10%. This study investigated subsyndromal autistic impairments among siblings of probands with pervasive developmental disorders... - Sibling recurrence and the genetic epidemiology of autismJohn N Constantino
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:1349-56. 2010..Although the symptoms of autism exhibit quantitative distributions in nature, estimates of recurrence risk in families have never previously considered or incorporated quantitative characterization of the autistic phenotype among siblings... - Novelty seeking as a moderator of familial risk for alcohol dependenceRichard A Grucza
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1176-83. 2006..We examined this possibility by analyzing the association between NS and alcohol dependence in individuals at intermediate and high levels of familial risk for alcohol dependence... - Quantitative assessment of autistic symptomatology in preschoolersElyse Pine
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Autism 10:344-52. 2006..We conclude that it is possible to obtain reliable quantitative measurements of autistic social impairment in preschoolers, suitable for assessing treatment response... - The National Health Service Corps: disparities in service to the mentally ill in Missouri and the United StatesChris Loynd
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Mo Med 105:90-2. 2008..S. is far less than that for primary health care. Revisions to the method by which the program prioritizes support of HPSAs are strongly and urgently warranted... - Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangementsPeter Szatmari
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada
Nat Genet 39:319-28. 2007..Neurexins team with previously implicated neuroligins for glutamatergic synaptogenesis, highlighting glutamate-related genes as promising candidates for contributing to ASDs... - Lack of evidence for increased genetic loading for autism among families of affected females: a replication from family history data in two large samplesRobin P Goin-Kochel
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Autism 11:279-86. 2007..Results from both samples did not suggest significant differences in the prevalence of ASD among relatives of affected males versus females... - A quantitative trait locus analysis of social responsiveness in multiplex autism familiesJacqueline A Duvall
Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:656-62. 2007..The authors present the first genome-wide scan for a social endophenotype in autism using the Social Responsiveness Scale, which provides a quantitative measure of autistic-like behavior, primarily focused on social relatedness...