All neurotypical control subjects and their families gave informed consent, and assent as age appropriate, in accordance with protocols approved by the Institutional Review Board, Office of Clinical Investigation of BCH, in full compliance with the Helsinki Declaration. Subjects with ASD or ASP, who had been referred clinically, were studied under a separate BCH Institutional Review Board protocol, also in full compliance with the Helsinki Declaration, which solely required de-identification of all personal information related to the collected data without requirement of informed consent.
