Genes, Ozone, and Autism: Increased Risk for Autism when Genetic Variation and Air Pollution Meet (IMAGE)

Penn State

Genes, Ozone, and Autism: Increased Risk for Autism when Genetic Variation and Air Pollution Meet

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Genes, Environment, and the Risk for Autism: Environment factors (ozone) can interact with genetic factors (copy number variation) to produce an even higher risk for autism than expected by adding the two risk factors, one that might not be found by studying the factors independently.

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Penn State University

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