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Gravity Follows Newton’s and Einstein’s Rules, Even at Cosmic Scales

April 15, 2026

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  1. Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis.

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  2. Molecular cascades and cell-type specific signatures in ASD revealed by single cell genomics.

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  3. The contributions of rare inherited and polygenic risk to ASD in multiplex families.

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  4. Broad transcriptomic dysregulation occurs across the cerebral cortex in ASD.

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  5. Integrating de novo and inherited variants in 42,607 autism cases identifies mutations in new moderate-risk genes.

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  6. Genetic correlates of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism.

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  7. Association between resting-state functional brain connectivity and gene expression is altered in autism spectrum disorder.

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  8. The contributions of rare inherited and polygenic risk to ASD in multiplex families.

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  9. Oxytocin normalizes altered circuit connectivity for social rescue of the Cntnap2 knockout mouse.

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  10. Coexpression network architecture reveals the brain-wide and multiregional basis of disease susceptibility.

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  11. A neurogenetic analysis of female autism.

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  12. Polygenic profiles define aspects of clinical heterogeneity in ADHD.

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  13. Polygenicity in psychiatry-like it or not, we have to understand it.

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  14. Integrative genomics identifies a convergent molecular subtype that links epigenomic with transcriptomic differences in autism.

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  15. Profiling allele-specific gene expression in brains from individuals with autism spectrum disorder reveals preferential minor allele usage.

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  16. Inherited and de novo genetic risk for autism impacts shared networks.

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  17. Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling identifies convergent molecular signatures associated with idiopathic and syndromic autism in post-mortem human brain tissue.

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  18. Human gut microbiota from autism spectrum disorder promote behavioral symptoms in mice.

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  19. Reduced prefrontal synaptic connectivity and disturbed oscillatory population dynamics in the CNTNAP2 model of autism.

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  20. Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder.

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  21. A genome-wide association study of shared risk across psychiatric disorders implicates gene regulation during fetal neurodevelopment.

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  22. Integrative functional genomic analysis of human brain development and neuropsychiatric risks.

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  23. Transcriptome-wide isoform-level dysregulation in ASD, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

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  24. Autism-like phenotype and risk gene mRNA deadenylation by CPEB4 mis-splicing.

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  25. Strong correlation of downregulated genes related to synaptic transmission and mitochondria in post-mortem autism cerebral cortex.

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  26. Shared molecular neuropathology across major psychiatric disorders parallels polygenic overlap.

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  27. Whole genome sequencing in psychiatric disorders: the WGSPD consortium.

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  28. Genome-wide changes in lncRNA, splicing, and regional gene expression patterns in autism.

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  29. Histone acetylome-wide association study of autism spectrum disorder.

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  30. The central nervous system and the gut microbiome.

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  31. The genetics-driven revival in neuropsychiatric drug development.

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  32. Correspondence between resting-state activity and brain gene expression.

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  33. Insights into autism spectrum disorder genomic architecture and biology from 71 risk loci.

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  34. Systems biology and gene networks in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.

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  35. Cerebellar associative sensory learning defects in five mouse autism models.

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  36. A genome-wide association study of autism using the Simons Simplex Collection: Does reducing phenotypic heterogeneity in autism increase genetic homogeneity?

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  37. Clustering autism: Using neuroanatomical differences in 26 mouse models to gain insight into the heterogeneity.

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  38. Exogenous and evoked oxytocin restores social behavior in the CNTNAP2 mouse model of autism.

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  39. A highly conserved program of neuronal microexons is misregulated in autistic brains.

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  40. Modest impact on risk for autism spectrum disorder of rare copy number variants at 15q11.2, specifically breakpoints 1 to 2.

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  41. Genes for endosomal NHE6 and NHE9 are misregulated in autism brains.

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  42. Integrative functional genomic analyses implicate specific molecular pathways and circuits in autism.

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  43. Cortical evolution: Judge the brain by its cover.

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  44. Adjusting head circumference for covariates in autism: clinical correlates of a highly heritable continuous trait.

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  45. Using large clinical datasets to infer pathogenicity for rare copy number variants in autism cohorts.

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  46. Intellectual disability is associated with increased runs of homozygosity in simplex autism.

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  47. The disruption of CELF6, a gene identified by translational profiling of serotonergic neurons, results in autism-related behaviors.

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  48. Common genetic variants, acting additively, are a major source of risk for autism.

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