A broad swath of neuropsychiatric conditions, including autism, depression and schizophrenia, share genetic underpinnings. But individual variants can have strikingly different effects on clinical diagnoses: A variant that increases the likelihood of one condition may reduce that of another, according to two new preprints. “When you delete and duplicate genes, you get very different, often […]
Population prospects: Large mutations in six chromosomal regions confer a lower likelihood of autism and other diagnoses than previously thought, according to a study of people born in Denmark. Alexander Spatari/Getty Images Some rare mutations linked to autism may boost a person’s chances of having the condition less than prior work suggests, according to a […]
POINT: Bob Gardner This November, Colorado voters have a chance to approve the largest expansion of parenting educational choices in the United States in more than a decade. Conservatives across Colorado voted YES to Proposition 119 – Names You Trust, like our last Republican Governor Bill Owens, former Treasurer Mark Hillman, Colorado Springs Conservatives Tim […]
