How pregnancy may shape a child’s autism
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Autism is predominantly genetic in origin, but a growing list of prenatal exposures for mother and baby may sway the odds.
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Analysis spotlights mutations in ‘dark’ regions of the genome
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Whole-genome scans of nearly 8,000 people link autism to spontaneous mutations in the stretches of DNA that regulate genes.
Spectrum is an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.
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