The Changing Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 38, Issue , 2017, Pages 81-102

  Lyall, Kristen ^a   Croen, Lisa ^b   Daniels, Julie ^c   Fallin, M Daniele ^d   Ladd Acosta, Christine ^d   Lee, Brian K ^a,e   Park, Bo Y ^d   Snyder, Nathaniel W ^a   Schendel, Diana ^f,g   Volk, Heather ^d   Windham, Gayle C ^h   Newschaffer, Craig ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^g Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research   (Denmark)

^h CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Autism; Environmental exposures; Epidemiology; Gene environment interaction; Genetics

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; FOLIC ACID;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LIFESTYLE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PARENTAL AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS;

AIR POLLUTION; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85017178110     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031816-044318     Document Type: Article

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