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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia. I. Family studies of IQ

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Thirty-one patients diagnosed as having congenital adrenal hyperplasia were given standardized IQ tests. Patients' IQ was found not to be significantly higher than the IQ of nonaffected siblings or the expected IQ from parental values. Thus the adrenogenital syndrome appears to confer no IQ advantage independent of family IQ level.

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  1. Departments of Obstetrics-Gynecology and Medicine (Division of Medical Genetics), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    Linda S. McGuire & Gilbert S. Omenn

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  1. Linda S. McGuire
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Sponsored by Rockefeller Foundation Family Planning and Education Grant No. RS 68003 to L.S.M. and by Grant GM 15253 and a Research Career Development Award GM 43122 from the U.S. Public Health Service to G.S.O.

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McGuire, L.S., Omenn, G.S. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia. I. Family studies of IQ. Behav Genet 5, 165–173 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066809

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