Marianna Stamou
Ph.D. Candidate
University of California, Davis
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Risk factors
To focus the search for environmental risk factors in autism, we should look for chemicals that influence the molecular pathways associated with candidate risk genes, say Pamela Lein and Marianna Stamou.
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