Certain regions of the human genome seem to be prone towards copy number variations (CNV), which are large rearrangements of DNA that often occur in the form of deletions and […]
It’s been a few months since the paper by Webb et al. (2016) came out, reporting a possible link between first trimester ultrasound exposure and increased autism severity in those […]
Let’s face it: humans are kinda narcissistic. For those of us who are evolutionarily-minded, as such we have a tendency to envision ourselves as lying at the pinnacle of eukaryotic […]
There’s been a lot of study of copy number variants (CNV) in autism over the last decade or so. Far from beating a dead horse, a recent publication in Neuron […]
You may have noticed that S.O.A.C. has been slow for the last few weeks. Well, I’m pleased to reported that my husband and I have just moved shop to Greenville, […]
The common disease, common variant hypothesis (CD/CV) stated that a few common allelic variants could account for the genetic variance in disease susceptibility, whereas the rare variant (CD/RV) hypothesis stated […]
Unfortunately this week I’m bogged down with a lot of writing (grant, manuscript revision, etc.) and so my post is going to have to be rather short. But I wanted […]
For those not familiar, transposable or mobile elements are segments of DNA that have, or at one time had, the potential for moving about the genome. This occurs either via […]
A letter was published this month in Nature Genetics by Gaugier et al. which has received notable attention. While many of us may be familiar with rare variants of genes […]
From left to right: Ami Klin, Laura Klinger, Francesca Happé, and Joe Piven. My fiancé, Manny Casanova, and I just finished attending this year’s International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) […]
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