Translational approaches to the biology of Autism: false dawn or a new era?

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Published in Mol Psychiatry on July 17, 2012

Authors

C Ecker1, W Spooren, D G M Murphy

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK. christine.ecker@kcl.ac.uk

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