Understanding sex bias in autism spectrum disorder

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Donna M Werling et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013.

. 2013 Mar 26;110(13):4868-9.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1301602110. Epub 2013 Mar 8.

¹ Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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