Autism-linked gene causes brain undergrowth (IMAGE)

Scripps Research Institute

Autism-linked gene causes brain undergrowth

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A side-by-side look at the brains of a normal newborn mouse and one lacking the autism and intellectual disability risk gene Dyrk1a.

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Damon Page Lab, Scripps Research

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