Engineering autism: Mice with extra chromosome region show many autistic signs

Mice who inherit a particular chromosomal duplication from their fathers show many behaviours associated with human autism, researchers report in the 26th June issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press Publication. The duplicated chromosomal region in mice is the equivalent of human chromosome 15q11-13, the most frequent cytogenetic abnormality observed in autism, accounting for some five percent of all cases...

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