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Environmental and state-level regulatory factors affect the incidence of autism and intellectual disability.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Mar 2014
Rzhetsky Andrey, Bagley Steven C, Wang Kanix, Lyttle Christopher S, Cook Edwin H, Altman Russ B, Gibbons Robert D
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Many factors affect the risks for neurodevelopmental maladies such as autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID). To compare environmental, phenotypic, socioeconomic and state-policy factors in a unified geospatial framework, we analyzed the spatial incidence patterns of ASD and ID using an insurance claims dataset covering nearly one third of the US population. Following epidemiologic...
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