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Behavioral Assessment Reliability in Clinical Phenotyping and Biomarker Research for Autism

2026-01-26 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWAutism Spectrum Disorder standardized behavioral assessments provide quantitative measures of symptoms, yet their reliability and consistency have not been systematically evaluated. We present the first large-scale comparative analysis of four widely used assessments. We analyzed behavioral assessments across three autism cohorts using correlations, clustering, and diagnostic agreement analyses. We related behavioral variation to genetic and imaging data to evaluate bioma...

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