Mark Daly

Associate professor
Massachusetts General Hospital

Mark Daly is director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland at the University of Helsinki. He is also co-director of the Medical and Population Genetics Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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Spectrum

By Mark Daly

27 June 2017

7 min read

The interplay of common, rare variation in autism

Autism researchers should ditch the false dichotomy between common inherited variants and much rarer random mutations.

Spectrum

The interplay of common, rare variation in autism

By Mark Daly

27 June 2017 | 7 min read

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