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Dissecting mechanisms of hyperarousal in autism and related disorders using the Simons Sleep Project

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

April 15, 2026

Scientists Capture Superconductivity’s ‘Dancing Pairs’ for First Time, Filling Gap in Decades-Old Theory

April 15, 2026

How SURFiN Fellowships Jump-Started These 3 Neuroscience Students’ STEM Careers

March 18, 2026

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  1. Genomic data resources of the Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network for neuropsychiatric diseases.

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  2. A phenotypic spectrum of autism is attributable to the combined effects of rare variants, polygenic risk and sex.

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  3. A human pleiotropic multiorgan condition caused by deficient Wnt secretion.

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  4. Developmental and temporal characteristics of clonal sperm mosaicism.

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  5. Mutations in spliceosomal genes PPIL1 and PRP17 cause neurodegenerative pontocerebellar hypoplasia with microcephaly.

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  6. Loss of NARS1 impairs progenitor proliferation in cortical brain organoids and leads to microcephaly.

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  7. Loss of the neural-specific BAF subunit ACTL6B relieves repression of early response genes and causes recessive autism.

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  8. Recurrent homozygous damaging mutation in TMX2, encoding a protein disulfide isomerase, in four families with microlissencephaly.

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  9. Autism risk in offspring can be assessed through quantification of male sperm mosaicism.

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  10. Paternally inherited cis-regulatory structural variants are associated with autism.

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  11. Biallelic variants in KIF14 cause intellectual disability with microcephaly.

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  12. A homozygous founder mutation in TRAPPC6B associates with a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by microcephaly, epilepsy and autistic features.

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  13. Impaired amino acid transport at the blood brain barrier is a cause of autism spectrum disorder.

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  14. Mutations in MBOAT7, encoding lysophosphatidylinositol acyltransferase I, lead to intellectual disability accompanied by epilepsy and autistic features.

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  15. Characterization of Greater Middle Eastern genetic variation for enhanced disease gene discovery.

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  16. Autosomal-recessive mutations in the tRNA splicing endonuclease subunit TSEN15 cause pontocerebellar hypoplasia and progressive microcephaly.

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  17. An AKT3-FOXG1-reelin network underlies defective migration in human focal malformations of cortical development.

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  18. Inactivating mutations in MFSD2A required for omega-3 fatty acid transport in brain, cause a lethal microcephaly syndrome.

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  19. Functional genome-wide siRNA screen identifies KIAA0586 as mutated in Joubert syndrome.

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  20. Biallelic mutations in SNX14 cause a syndromic form of cerebellar atrophy and lysosome-autophagosome dysfunction.

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  21. Biallelic truncating mutations in FMN2, encoding the actin-regulatory protein formin 2, cause nonsyndromic autosomal-recessive intellectual disability.

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  22. CLP1 founder mutation links tRNA splicing and maturation to cerebellar development and neurodegeneration.

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  23. The genetic landscape of autism spectrum disorders.

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  24. AMPD2 regulates GTP synthesis and is mutated in a potentially treatable neurodegenerative brainstem disorder.

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  25. Hemimegalencephaly, a paradigm for somatic postzygotic neurodevelopmental disorders.

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  26. Whole-exome sequencing identifies mutated C12ORF57 in recessive corpus callosum hypoplasia.

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  27. Mutations in BCKD-kinase lead to a potentially treatable form of autism with epilepsy.

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  28. Exome sequencing can improve diagnosis and alter patient management.

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  29. Whole exome sequencing identifies a splicing mutation in NSUN2 as a cause of a Dubowitz-like syndrome.

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  30. Evolutionarily assembled cis-regulatory module at a human ciliopathy locus.

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  31. CEP41 is mutated in Joubert syndrome and is required for tubulin glutamylation at the cilium.

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  32. Modeling human disease in humans: The ciliopathies.

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