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The aim of the present study is to consolidate all existing frontal lobe volume and age data of autistic individuals below 30 years of age, and compare this data to non-autistic (N-ASD) controls. Following a systematic review, frontal lobe volume data were obtained from seven papers. Raw data, or the means and standard deviations of frontal lobe volume, and age, were obtained from the studies giving 372 autistic and 190 N-ASD participants. Data were plotted and analysed. Findings revealed that regression lines of fit for ASD (R2L\u2062i\u2062n\u2062e\u2062a\u2062r = 0.33; R2Q\u2062u\u2062a\u2062d\u2062r\u2062a\u2062t\u2062i\u2062c = 0.52) and N-ASD (R2L\u2062i\u2062n\u2062e\u2062a\u2062r = 0.14; R2Q\u2062u\u2062a\u2062d\u2062r\u2062a\u2062t\u2062i\u2062c = 0.39) were significantly different by diagnosis (linear p = 0.002, quadratic p = 0.02) with quadratic models providing significantly better fit within ASD (p &lt; 0.001) and N-ASD (p &lt; 0.001). Additional analyses revealed that frontal lobe volume was greater in autistic individuals than N-ASD between two and four years (F(1,31) = 12.965, p &lt; 0.005, \u03b72 = 0.291). 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