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Autism genetics: emerging data from genome-wide copy-number and single nucleotide polymorphism scans

Lauren A Weiss Staglin Family Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Human Genetics, Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Nina Ireland Laboratory, Box F-0984, 401 Parnassus Avenue, Rm. A101, San Francisco, CA 94143-0984, USA. [email protected]
Pages 795-803 | Published online: 09 Jan 2014

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