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Posted: Updated:  Gleny Duran wants to know why her 8-year-old
son, Angel, has autism.  "Is it something that I'm eating? Is it
the air? Is it genetic?" she asked.  Doctors don't know exactly
what causes the neurological disorder, but now more research
points to the environment playing a role. In the first national
study of its kind, researchers from the Harvard School of Public
Health looked at 25,000 women and found those exposed to high
levels of air pollution while pregnant were twice as likely to
have a child with autism.  "We need to be concerned about levels
of air pollution in our environment and we need to do everything
we can to reduce ambient air pollution exposures," said Dr.
Alycia Halladay of Autism Speaks.    "One of many different risk
factors both genetic and environmental. And what we really need
to better understand is how these many risk factors... how they
interact to