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Within families with more than one affected member, however, discrepant findings exist with regard to symptom variability. Reduced intrafamily variance is of particular importance because it supports an underlying model of genetic heterogeneity in the transmission of autism, and the identification of familial clinical subtypes can be used to select more homogeneous samples for linkage analysis in the future. This study examines whether there are specific features of autism that show decreased variance within 16 families with monozygotic siblings concordant for autism. Evidence for familiality was defined as significantly decreased variance of symptom levels within monozygotic siblingships as compared to between siblingships. Using regression analysis, we demonstrated significant aggregation of symptoms within monozygotic siblingships for two of the three main symptom domains in autism: impairments in communication and social interaction showed significant familiality. 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