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Autism genetics research advancing faster than scientsists can comprehend
Last month, my colleagues and I published two large studies that sequenced the genes or exomes of thousands of families ...
Exposure to mother’s immune response in utero may lead to neurological problems
Monkeys exposed in utero to their mother’s immune response to a mock infection show inflammation in their brains four years later. Researchers ...
Clinics unroll genome tests for undiagnosed disorders
Over the past few years, teams of scientists have been finding genetic glitches related to a wide variety of disorders by sequencing exomes, ...