Anna Goshua is an editorial intern at Spectrum. Previously, she interned at Medscape. She is a medical student at Stanford University and a journalism student in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University.

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Insurance claims data are useful for autism research, but the field needs to standardize how they are mined, Shea says.

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Myelin loss may explain how autism-linked DNA deletion affects cognition
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