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Sepideh Saroukhani; Maureen Samms-Vaughan; Jan Bressler; MinJae Lee; Courtney Byrd-Williams; Manouchehr Hessabi; Megan L. Grove; Sydonnie Shakespeare-Pellington; Katherine A. Loveland; Mohammad H. Rahbar – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
To investigate additive and interactive associations of food allergies with three glutathione S-transferase (GST) genes in relation to ASD and ASD severity in Jamaican children. Using data from 344 1:1 age- and sex-matched ASD cases and typically developing controls, we assessed additive and interactive associations of food allergies with…
Descriptors: Food, Allergy, Genetics, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Saroukhani, Sepideh; Samms-Vaughan, Maureen; Lee, MinJae; Bach, MacKinsey A.; Bressler, Jan; Hessabi, Manouchehr; Grove, Megan L.; Shakespeare-Pellington, Sydonnie; Loveland, Katherine A.; Rahbar, Mohammad H. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Mode of delivery, preterm birth, and low birth weight (LBW) are hypothesized to be associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the offspring. Using data from 343 ASD cases (2-8 years) and their age- and sex-matched typically developing controls in Jamaica we investigated these hypotheses. Our statistical analyses revealed that the parish of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Perinatal Influences, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Christian, MacKinsey A.; Samms-Vaughan, Maureen; Lee, MinJae; Bressler, Jan; Hessabi, Manouchehr; Grove, Megan L.; Shakespeare-Pellington, Sydonnie; Coore Desai, Charlene; Reece, Jody-Ann; Loveland, Katherine A.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Rahbar, Mohammad H. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with poorly understood etiology. Many maternal exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding potentially interfere with neurodevelopment. Using data from two age- and sex-matched case-control studies in Jamaica (n = 298 pairs), results of conditional logistic regression…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Pregnancy, Correlation