September 20, 2017

New Nature Neuro Paper

UW MSTP students Madeleine Geisheker (E-12, first author) and Gabe Heymann (E-13, second author) have a new Nature Neuro paper characterizing the properties of missense mutations in those with autism and other neurodevelopment disorders showing these mutations tend to cluster in specific regions important to protein function, and in genes involved in neuronal signaling.