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Michael Rutter

Researcher at King's College London

Publications -  684
Citations -  158378

Michael Rutter is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Autism & Conduct disorder. The author has an hindex of 188, co-authored 676 publications receiving 151592 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Rutter include VCU Medical Center & Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

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Do the effects of early severe deprivation on cognition persist into early adolescence? Findings from the English and Romanian adoptees study.

TL;DR: Cognitive outcomes at age 11 of 131 Romanian adoptees from institutions were compared with 50 U.K. adopted children, drawing attention to the psychological as well as physical risks of institutional deprivation.
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Individual common variants exert weak effects on the risk for autism spectrum disorders.

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TL;DR: Stage 2 of the Autism Genome Project genome-wide association study is reported, adding 1301 ASD families and bringing the total to 2705 families analysed, and it is reasonable to conclude that common variants affect the risk for ASD but their individual effects are modest.
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Children in lesbian and single-parent households: psychosexual and psychiatric appraisal

TL;DR: It was concluded that rearing in a lesbian household per se did not lead to atypical psychosexual development or constitute a psychiatric risk factor, although there was some indication of more frequent psychiatric problems in the single-parent group.
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Measured Gene-Environment Interactions in Psychopathology: Concepts, Research Strategies, and Implications for Research, Intervention, and Public Understanding of Genetics.

TL;DR: It is suggested that information about nurture might be harnessed to make new discoveries about the nature of psychopathology and the potential benefits of studying measured gene-environment interactions for basic neuroscience, gene hunting, intervention, and public understanding of genetics.