Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 9 , Pages 921-933 , September 2010

Autism in Fragile X Syndrome: A Category Mistake?

,Accepted 9 July 2010.

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 This research was supported by National Institute of Mental Health grants MH50047 and MH01142 and the Canel Fragile X Family Fund.

 Disclosure: Drs. Hall, Lightbody, and Reiss, and Ms. Hirt and Ms. Rezvani report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(10)00526-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2010.07.001

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 9 , Pages 921-933 , September 2010

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