Our current understanding of autism is largely based on clinical experiences and research
involving male individuals given the male-predominance in prevalence and the under�…

Purpose: Increasing clinical evidence suggests an overrepresentation of gender variance
(GV) among patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). This retrospective chart review�…

Background Studies of prenatal exposure to sex steroid hormones predict autistic traits in
children at 18 to 24 and at 96 months of age. However, it is not known whether postnatal�…

Background Concerns have been raised that scores on standard measures of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms may differ as a function of sex. However, these findings�…

Background Increased prenatal testosterone exposure has been hypothesized as a
mechanism underlying autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, no studies have�…

The male preponderance in autism prevalence has brought together the disparate topics of
sex/gender and autism research. Two directions of neuroimaging studies on the�…

Genetic studies of autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have mostly focused on the “low
functioning” severe clinical subgroup, treating it as a rare disorder. However, ASC is now�…

Females versus males are less frequently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD),
and while understanding sex differences is critical to delineating the systems biology of the�…

Individuals with ASD frequently experience one or more comorbid conditions. Here, we
investigate the influence of sex and age—two important, yet understudied factors—on ten�…

The implications of the well known sex differences in the prevalence of autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) are not well understood. The aim of this paper was to investigate whether�…