Understanding sex bias in autism spectrum disorder

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4868-4869

  Werling, Donna M ^a,b   Geschwind, Daniel H ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Autism Research and Treatment   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENDER BIAS; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; SIBLING;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84875500886     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301602110     Document Type: Note

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