News & Opinion
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29 October 2010Comments ( 0 )Mice with social behavior deficits reminiscent of autism are friendlier when raised alongside a highly social mouse strain.
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29 October 2010Comments ( 0 )The first genome-wide linkage analysis of more than 1,200 families has identified regions implicated in autism as originating from either the paternal or maternal copies of chromosomes.
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28 October 2010Comments ( 0 )Researchers have mapped unique identifiers in the regions around human genes that are at risk for duplication or deletion, allowing precise sequencing of nearly 1,000 genes for the first time, according to a paper published today in Science.
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28 October 2010Comments ( 0 )Two new studies use medical records from countries with nationalized health care to link autoimmune disease and obesity in parents to the likelihood of having a child with autism.
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28 October 2010Comments ( 0 )The National Institutes of Health on 30 September launched a public database to catalog a particularly important type of genomic data: so-called 'structural variations' — large deletions, duplications and rearrangements of DNA.
