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This is the text of the William A Silverman lecture given by Dr David K Stevenson at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, May 4–7, 2013.

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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health Grants #HD058663-01A2 and #HL68703-07, the Mary L. Johnson Research Fund, the Christopher Hess Research Fund and the H.M. Lui Research Fund.

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