WCPG 2011

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Ambitious U.K. project set to sequence 10,000 genomes

The largest and most ambitious genome-sequencing project to date aims to identify rare variants and study their association to disease traits in 10,000 people.

By Deborah Rudacille
15 September 2011 | 3 min read
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Autism exome study pinpoints mutations in brain genes

Children with autism carry many more spontaneous point mutations in genes expressed in the brain compared with their unaffected siblings, according to unpublished findings presented Monday at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in Washington, D.C.

By Deborah Rudacille
14 September 2011 | 4 min read
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Researchers identify gene regulating amygdala volume

A variant of the FGF14 gene may decrease the volume of the amygdala, a brain structure needed to interpret emotions in facial expressions, according to results presented on Sunday at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in Washington, D.C.

By Deborah Rudacille
13 September 2011 | 3 min read

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