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Grateful thanks are due to Fru Hermansen's Mindelegat, to the Gangsted-Rasmussen Fund for financial support, and to statistician J. Nyboe, Rigshospitalet, for help with the statistical analysis.
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Mouridsen, S.E., Rich, B. & Isager, T. Brief report: Parental age in infantile autism, autistic-like conditions, and borderline childhood psychosis. J Autism Dev Disord 23, 387–396 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01046227
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