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Scott Myers

Associate professor, Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute

Scott Myers is a neurodevelopmental pediatrician and associate professor of pediatrics at the Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute at Geisinger in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

March 2021
Brain made of DNA strands on a background of molecule shapes

There are no autism-specific genes, just brain genes

by ,  /  23 March 2021

There is not yet a single example of a gene that, when mutated, increases the likelihood of autism but not of other neurodevelopmental conditions, including intellectual disability.

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