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Huda Zoghbi and Christopher Walsh: Hunting Genes that Damage our Brains

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

CHAPTER

Autism and Mosaic Mutations

Every cell is born with about a hundred, maybe 200 mutations relative to the egg. So across our bodya, we have thousands of mosaic mutations. In some people, one of these mutations might affect an epilepsy jean and cause a epilepsy that could be focal inoe, just one part of their brains. Some kids with atism are brilliant at some things like matm or memory, but very challenged in the social sphere.

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