Autism genes activate during fetal brain development

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 15:30 in Biology & Nature

Mutations that cause autism in children are connected to a pathway that regulates brain development, scientists have found. The researchers studied a set of well-known autism mutations called copy number variants or CNVs. They investigated when and where the genes were expressed during brain development.

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