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Work on this paper was supported in part by NIMH grant MH-01028-02 to Dr. Piven. We thank Denis Hulseberg for performing FISH studies on Case 1.
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Baker, P., Piven, J., Schwartz, S. et al. Brief report: Duplication of chromosome 15q11-13 in two individuals with autistic disorder. J Autism Dev Disord 24, 529–535 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02172133
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