Ancient Autism Genes
We recently published an article in Autism Research reporting that autism genes are extremely ancient compared to other genes in the human genome. Illustration by Alexander Glandien. Courtesy of Spectrum News. […]
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Our Obsession with the Synapse in Autism – Is It Really that Simple?
Ever since synaptic gene mutations were discovered in autism, the scientific world has been obsessed [1, 2]. Interestingly, however, these synapse-specific genes make up only a small minority of autism […]
Our latest publication: High-risk genes for autism function in the nucleus and regulate gene expression
Over the last year and a half, I’ve been studying rare forms of intellectual disability (ID) that have single-gene (monogenic) origins using various bioinformatics approaches. My primary interest was to […]
Do Disturbances to Neuronal Maturation Lead to Autism?
A few weeks ago I summarized the findings of our latest study in Frontiers. Unfortunately, I gather as there was almost no interest in the blog that I did a […]
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