Grand average event-related potentials (ERP) in the P100 time window in the ASD group vs. the control group, pooled for PO7 and PO8 electrodes.

<p>left panel presents response to face stimuli, right panel presents response to name stimuli, with all categories taken together.</p

Participants' characteristics in the ASD group (age, handedness, IQ, ADOS, and ADI-R scores) and in the control group (age, handedness, and IQ scores).

<p>All subjects were male.</p

Grand average event-related potentials (ERP) in the ASD group vs. the control group, presented separately for each category of stimuli (own, close-other, famous, unknown), each analyzed centro-parietal scalp position (CP3, CPz, CP4), and each type of stimuli (face, name).

<p>Grand average event-related potentials (ERP) in the ASD group vs. the control group, presented separately for each category of stimuli (own, close-other, famous, unknown), each analyzed centro-parietal scalp position (CP3, CPz, CP4), and each type of stimuli (face, name).</p

Grand average event-related potentials (ERP) in the N170 time window in the ASD group vs. the control group, separately for each analyzed scalp position (PO7, PO8).

<p>upper panels present response to face stimuli, bottom panels present response to name stimuli, with all categories taken together. For faces, amplitudes of N170 (peak-to-peak vs. P100) were higher on PO8 than on PO7 and for names amplitudes were higher on PO7 than on PO8.</p

Distribution of genotypes and analysis of the association between rs6943555 and suicide.

<p>P values <0.05 were <b>boldfaced</b>¹ comparison with all controls; ² comparison with controls with BDI ≤ 11, HWE - Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, ³for 8 subjects from suicide cohort II there were no data on blood ethanol concentration</p

Characteristics of suicide subjects.

*<p>We observed statistically significant difference regarding gender between cases and controls (47.11% males for controls, <i>p</i><0.001 vs. suicides)</p>**<p>We observed statistically significant difference regarding age between cases and controls (mean = 45.70, SD = 14.91 for controls, <i>p</i> = 0.003 vs. suicides)</p

Characteristics of suicide subjects.

<p>Characteristics of suicide subjects.</p

Characteristics of suicide subjects from the replication cohort.

<p>Characteristics of suicide subjects from the replication cohort.</p

Age and sex adjusted mean quintile of alcohol consumption per day per kg of body weight vs. the rs6943555 genotype encoded as the number of the A alleles among 3830 WOBASZ subjects.

<p>Vertical bars indicate 95% confidence intervals.</p

Distribution of genotypes and analysis of the association between rs9939609 and suicide.

<p><i>P</i> values <0.05 are <b>boldfaced</b>; <i>P_cor</i> – <i>P</i> values corrected for multiple testing with Bonferroni method;</p><p>* comparison with controls.</p><p>Distribution of genotypes and analysis of the association between rs9939609 and suicide.</p