The Developmental Gene Hypothesis: Genetics Behind Punctuated Equilibrium?
Most of you probably know that I blog primarily about autism and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). But as the header on Science Over a Cuppa hints, I have a secret– shall […]
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Genetic & Symptom Clusters within Autism & Intellectual Disability
Apologies for my blogging absence, everyone. I’m working towards a rapidly-approaching book deadline and much of my writing energies have gone towards that project. However, rest assured, my blogging will […]
Is a Lack of Consanguinity Uncovering the Hidden Autism in Our Genes?
Although it’s a difficult topic to study, because the human species has experienced a number of population bottlenecks over time it’s assumed that rates of consanguinous (close kinship) marriage or […]
Animal, Plant, & Fungal Genomes Have Streamlined Over Time
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 […]
Gene Evolution Is All about Regulation
Okay, so gene evolution isn’t entirely about regulation. But protein-coding sequences of genes have changed comparatively little over hundreds of millions of years. When you look at the proteins that […]
Tweny-three Chromosome Pairs? Try 1,000!
Every once in awhile, maybe once in a blue moon, you may read something that’s so left-field, so alien that it literally changes your fundamental concepts. For me that happened […]
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 […]
Nonrandom Mating and its Relationship with Autism, ADHD, and Schizophrenia
When choosing romantic partners, we’re all familiar with the phrase “like attracts like”. Ironically, however, this phenomenon is all too often overlooked in modern genetics studies. In a recent study […]
Neuronal Excitability & Schizophrenia
In comparison to autism, schizophrenia has had a longer history of study. Yet in recent times, research into the condition seems to have received less money than autism itself, most […]
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