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Nature Medicine 13, 534 - 536 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm0507-534

Autism: highly heritable but not inherited

Arthur L Beaudet1

  1. The author is in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. e-mail: abeaudet@bcm.tmc.edu


The genetic basis of autism is beginning to come to light. De novo mutations in gene copy number may have a big role.

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