Structural, Genetic, and Functional Signatures of Disordered Neuro-Immunological Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Vishal Saxena; Shweta Ramdas; Courtney Rothrock Ochoa; David Wallace; Pradeep Bhide; Isaac Kohane

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048835

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Structural, Genetic, and Functional Signatures of Disordered Neuro-Immunological Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Vishal Saxena ,

* E-mail: vishal@mit.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Shweta Ramdas,

Affiliation Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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Courtney Rothrock Ochoa,

Affiliation Center for Lung Biology, University of South Alabama College, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
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David Wallace,

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Pradeep Bhide,

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Isaac Kohane

Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Structural, Genetic, and Functional Signatures of Disordered Neuro-Immunological Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Vishal Saxena,
Shweta Ramdas,
Courtney Rothrock Ochoa,
David Wallace,
Pradeep Bhide,
Isaac Kohane

Published: December 4, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048835

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