Hundreds of Autism Genes All Break the Brain the Same Way
Ben Sullivan
By the time researchers had catalogued 102 genes linked to autism in a single landmark paper five years ago, a quietly uncomfortable question had settled over the field. How could so many genes, doing such different jobs, produce something that looks so much like the same disorder? Some govern how chromosomes are packaged. Others regulate the junctions between neurons. Still others keep brain cells dividing at the right pace. Their functions barely overlap. And yet losing any one of them tilts..