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ArticleMolecular autism2015

Understanding autism in the light of sex/gender.

Meng-Chuan Lai, Simon Baron-Cohen, Joseph D Buxbaum

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Article in Molecular autism, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Meng-Chuan LaiAutism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road, Cambridge, CB2 8AH UK ; CLASS Clinic, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Chitra Sethia Autism Centre, The Gatehouse, Fulbourn Hospital, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5EF UK ; Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, No.1 Jen-Ai Road Section 1, Taipei, 10051 Taiwan.
Simon Baron-CohenAutism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road, Cambridge, CB2 8AH UK ; CLASS Clinic, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Chitra Sethia Autism Centre, The Gatehouse, Fulbourn Hospital, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5EF UK.
Joseph D BuxbaumSeaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Friedman Brain Institute and Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1468 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029 USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID25973161
PMCPMC4429357

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