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Psychiatric Genetics: New Discoveries, More Controversies

Posted on June 19, 2008

The earlier part of this year saw the publication of a number of studies about the genetics of autism, with one scientist speculating about a Mendelian genetics: In 2007, he published two articles about spontaneous (de novo) mutation and autism. And a March 2007 paper in Science suggested that large genetic events - copy number variations, where large segments of DNA are duplicated or deleted that arose spontaneously in a child (without appearing in a parent) could account for more than 30 percent of cases of autism. And, according to a July 2007 paper in the Proceedings of the Nat...

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