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Broad Institute Symposium on the Emerging Genetics and Neurobiology of Severe Mental Illness 2013

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Iceland study characterizes autism-linked genetic regions

by  /  11 September 2013
Duplications and deletions of large chromosomal regions are associated with intellectual disability, cognitive deficits and a low likelihood of having children, according to a population-wide study in Iceland. The results were presented Monday at a conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.