Studies Map Gene Expression Across Brain Development

• By: Virginia Hughes SFARI.org
• January 1st, 2014
• autism genetics, brain development, fetal brain development, gene expression, genetic heterogeneity, glutamatergic neurons, neural networks, research, science, synapse function
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Now that genetic studies have implicated several hundred genes in autism, researchers are turning their attention to where and when in the healthy young brain these genes are expressed. The first two studies to tackle these questions appeared on November 21, 2013 in Cell. One report, led by...