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Spectrum: Autism Research News

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Gerald Crabtree

Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology, Stanford University

March 2014

Emerging importance of chromatin in autism risk

by ,  /  18 March 2014

Sequencing studies over the past few years have made a dramatic and unexpected discovery: Many of the mutations in individuals with autism are in genes that regulate chromatin, which helps package DNA in the cell nucleus, say Gerald Crabtree and Aryaman Shalizi.

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