Charlotte Schubert

Charlotte Schubert is a freelance science journalist based in Seattle with previous staff experience at Nature Medicine and at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She has written for Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cell Press and other publications. She has Ph.D. from the University of Washington and just completed a year-long stint in an epigenetics lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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Spectrum

By Charlotte Schubert

10 August 2017

4 min read

Genetic risk factors for autism may affect family size

People who carry risk factors for autism but do not have the condition tend to have slightly fewer children than average, and have them later in life.

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Genetic risk factors for autism may affect family size

By Charlotte Schubert

10 August 2017 | 4 min read

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