Solitary mutation destroys key 'window' of brain development

Friday, June 21, 2013 - 09:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have shown in animal models that brain damage caused by the loss of a single copy of a gene during very early childhood development can cause a lifetime of behavioral and intellectual problems.

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