Sven Sandin is associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a statistician in the medical epidemiology and biostatistics department at the Karolinska Institutet. He has more than 20 years of experience with epidemiological studies, primarily using the Swedish and Nordic population-based national registers to characterize the genetic basis of autism and familial recurrence of autism.
Sven Sandin
Associate professor of psychiatry
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Sneha Chaturvedi, John Constantino, Natasha Marrus, Sven Sandin, Benjamin Yip
19 September 2024
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If boys have greater inherited liability for autism, the female protective effect may not fully explain the sex difference in prevalence.
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