Lauren Weiss is professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.
Lauren Weiss
Associate professor
University of California, San Francisco
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Including more females in autism research studies will aid the search for genetic and environmental susceptibility factors for the disorder, says genetic psychiatrist Lauren Weiss.
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