Genetic risk for autism stems mostly from common genes

Sunday, July 20, 2014 - 23:00 in Biology & Nature

Using new statistical tools, scientists have discovered that most of the genetic risk for autism comes from versions of genes that are common in the population rather than from rare variants or spontaneous glitches.

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