Microcephaly genes associated with human brain size

Monday, December 21, 2009 - 23:21 in Biology & Nature

Scientists 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.

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