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. 2008 Sep 9;18(17):R748-R750.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.004.

Autism: face-processing clues to inheritance

Elizabeth Pellicano  1
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Autism: face-processing clues to inheritance

Elizabeth Pellicano. Curr Biol. .
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When reading faces, autistic individuals gain considerably less information from the eyes and more from the mouth. A new study reports that some parents of autistic children use strikingly similar strategies, providing a crucial clue as to what might be inherited in autism.

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