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1Isaac S. Kohane is Co-Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA, and the Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. isaac_kohane@harvard.edu.
Science Translational Medicine
|November 1, 2013
Abstract:
Newly released definitions of autism spectrum disorder demonstrate the need for precise diagnoses informed by the integration of clinical, molecular, and biochemical characteristics in a patient-information commons.
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