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Social demographic change and autism.
Demography - 1 May 2010
Liu Kayuet, Zerubavel Noam, Bearman Peter
Abstract excerpt
Parental age at child's birth--which has increased for U.S. children in the 1992-2000 birth cohorts--is strongly associated with an increased risk of autism. By turning a social demographic lens on the historical patterning of concordance among twin pairs, we identify a central mechanism for this association: de novo mutations, which are deletions, insertions, and duplications of DNA in the germ cells that are...
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