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Researchers find some neurons in the autistic brain preferentially express the copy of a gene inherited from one parent over the other. Many researchers have assumed that most cells express both copies of a gene equally. Studies in cultured cells ...

from SFARI by Kate Yandell Small pieces of DNA within genes, dubbed ‘microexons,’ are abnormally regulated in people with autism, suggests a study of postmortem brains published 18 December in Cell1. These sequences, some as short as three nucleotides, moderate ...