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Food for Thought: Making Autism Studies Diverse
February 15, 2017

People from minority groups have traditionally been underrepresented in autism research, and genetic studies are no exception. For example, African-Americans constituted just over 2 percent of individuals in the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, a large repository of genetic information, in 2008. African-Americans make up 13 percent of the total U.S. population, according to the 2015 census.

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https://spectrumnews.org/opinion/q-and-a/questions-daniel-geschwind-making-autism-studies-diverse/

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