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Autism: face-processing clues to inheritance.

Current biology : CB - 9 Sept 2008

Pellicano Elizabeth

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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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PMID: 18786377
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.004

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PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 2 Sept 2026. Prepared record publication-18786377-2026-09-02.2. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-02.2.

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