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Spectrum: Autism Research News

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Louise Gallagher

Professor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin

November 2013

Immigrant risk

by  /  12 November 2013

In Ireland, children born to women who have emigrated from certain African countries are more likely to be diagnosed with autism, and to have more severe symptoms of the disorder, than their peers, says Louise Gallagher.

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