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21 Mar 2014, 9:38 am

This is very interesting and full of information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycGAq4DIRA

TO make this post a little less opaque, Dr. Chung describes the work she has been doing on copy errors in 16p11.2 and related work.

Deletions and duplications of the genes in this sequence are closely tied with ASD.
There is a piece about this at SFARI:
http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/works ... plications