April is Autism Awareness Month

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April is Autism Awareness Month

• CDC feature: Autism Spectrum Disorders: One Family's Story
• CDC announcement: Autism Awareness Month and World Autism Day, April 2013 MMWR Mar 29, 2013 / 62(12);232
• CDC information: Autism spectrum disorders: test your knowledge
• CDC information: Genomics and health: Autism and family history
• Newborn screening for autism: in search of candidate biomarkers
  Mizejewski GJ, et al. Biomark Med 2013 Apr;7(2):247-60
• From the HuGE Navigator: 431 genes have been reported with Autism, including 10 genomewide association studies