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Autism genes: the continuum that connects us all

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RP is a recipient of the institute post-doctoral fellowship from IIT Kanpur.

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[Parihar R. and Ganesh S. 2016 Autism genes: the continuum that connects us all. J. Genet. 95, xx–xx]

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PARIHAR, R., GANESH, S. Autism genes: the continuum that connects us all. J Genet 95, 481–483 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-016-0688-0

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