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Research for this paper was supported in part by MH29248 awarded to the first author, by MH 30897 awarded to Peter Tanguay, M.D., for Clinical Research Center for Study of Childhood Psychosis, and by Maternal and Child Health Project No. 927 awarded to James Q. Simmons, III, M.D., Chief of Child Psychiatry, all of the Mental Retardation and Child Psychiatry Division, University of California, Los Angeles. Computing was done at the Health Sciences Computing Facility, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Freeman, B.J., Schroth, P., Ritvo, E. et al. The Behavior Observation Scale for autism (BOS): Initial results of factor analyses. J Autism Dev Disord 10, 343–346 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02408293
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