One Autism Mutation Collapses the Whole Gene Network
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Summary
How can hundreds of different mutations cause autism? Boston Children's Hospital researchers discovered "transcriptomic convergence"—where mutating one autism gene drags down a whole network—and identified ZFX, an X-linked gene that protects females from the collapse.
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