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Nature Medicine 15, 349 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nm0409-349b

Blueprint for autism research put forward

Virginia Hughes1

  1. New York

After a year of gathering input from top scientists and vocal public advocates, a US federal government advisory panel has released a blueprint of priorities for autism research.The 'strategic plan', mandated by the Combating Autism Act in December 2006 and completed on 26 January of this year, recommends 40 specific projects to study the diagnosis, cause and lifelong care of the developmental disorder, which,by some estimates, affects one in 150 people.

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