New Intellectual Disability Syndrome Caused by Genetic Damage to Single Gene
Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 13:31
in Health & Medicine
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics have found a gene responsible for an intellectual disability disorder and proven how it works. The research, published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, details the role of a gene called BCL11A in a new intellectual disability syndrome.