Gerald Crabtree
Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology
Stanford University
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Emerging importance of chromatin in autism risk
Sequencing studies over the past few years have made a dramatic and unexpected discovery: Many of the mutations in individuals with autism are in genes that regulate chromatin, which helps package DNA in the cell nucleus, say Gerald Crabtree and Aryaman Shalizi.

Emerging importance of chromatin in autism risk
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