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Table 1 Demographic information of each syndrome group and associated cross-syndrome comparisons and post hoc tests

From: The behavioural phenotype of Potocki-Lupski syndrome: a cross-syndrome comparison

Variables

Syndrome group

Cross-syndrome comparison

PTLS (N = 34)

SMS (N = 31)

ASD (N = 33)

p value

Post hoc test

Mean agea, years (SD)

12.43 (6.78)

13.61 (6.85)

12.04 (5.85)

.562

 

% male (N)

55.88 (19)

45.16 (14)

87.88 (29)

.001

ASD > SMS, PTLS

Mean self-help scorea, b (SD)

7.18 (1.47)

7.06 (1.34)

7.39 (1.43)

.635

 

% fully mobileb (N)

79.41 (27)

77.42 (24)

90.91 (30)

.369

 

% normal vision (N)

82.35 (28)

70.97 (22)

100.00 (33)

.005

ASD > SMS

% normal hearing (N)

91.18 (31)

64.52 (20)

100.00 (33)

< .001

ASD > SMS

% verbal/partly verbalc (N)

85.29 (29)

87.10 (27)

87.88 (29)

.950

 
  1. aContinuous non-normally distributed data; therefore, Kruskal-Wallis tests were conducted
  2. bData derived from the Wessex Behaviour Schedule
  3. cData derived from item 1 of the Wessex Behaviour Schedule—‘Is the person you care for verbal? (more than 30 signs/words in their vocabulary)’