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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the support of the World Innoviation Summit in Health (WISH) by Qatar Foundation for the Autism Forum and the Fogarty/NIMH D43 grant TW009680 from the National Institutes of Health (KM, IR, BG).

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  1. Division of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Kerim M. Munir & David T. Helm

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Kerim M. Munir

  3. Center for Value and Risk in Health (CEVR), Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Tara A. Lavelle

  4. Child Mental Health and Development Center, Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Ikram Rustamov

  5. Sidra Medical and Research Center, Cornell Weill Medical College, Doha, Qatar

    Waqar Azeem

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Munir, K.M., Lavelle, T.A., Helm, D.T., Rustamov, I., Azeem, W. (2018). Developing Countries and Autism. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102146-1

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