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  1. Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

    Michael Shapira, David Glick & Hermona Soreq

  2. Department of Medicine and Center for Human Genetics, Durham, North Carolina, 27710

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Shapira, M., Glick, D., Gilbert, J.R., Soreq, H. (2002). Autism, Stress, and Chromosome 7 Genes. In: Schopler, E., Yirmiya, N., Shulman, C., Marcus, L.M. (eds) The Research Basis for Autism Intervention., vol 264. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47946-X_8

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