Microcephaly genes associated with human brain size
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 17:49
in Health & Medicine
A group of Norwegian and American researchers have shown that common variations in genes associated with microcephaly -- a neuro-developmental disorder in which brain size is dramatically reduced -- may explain differences in brain size in healthy individuals as well as in patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders. Link: http://www.ucsd.edu