Single gene linked to host of abnormalities during neurodevelopment

Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 09:03 in Biology & Nature

Yale researchers have shown that mutations of a gene associated with autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and epilepsy cause some of the same structural and behavioral abnormalities that characterize those neurodevelopmental disorders, they report March 5 in the journal Cell Reports. Whole genome sequencing has shown mutations of the TRIO gene, which plays a crucial role […]

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