Engineering Autism: Mice With Extra Chromosome Region Show Many Autistic Signs
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 20:14
in Biology & Nature
Mice who inherit a particular chromosomal duplication from their fathers show many behaviors associated with human autism, researchers report. The duplicated chromosomal region in mice is the equivalent of human chromosome 15q11-13, the most frequent cytogenetic abnormality observed in autism, accounting for some five percent of all cases.