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Rare human gene variant in ADHD, autism exposes fundamental sex differences
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Rare human gene variant in ADHD, autism exposes fundamental sex differences

by  Florida Atlantic University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The prevalence, age of onset, and clinical symptoms for virtually all neuropsychiatric disorders differ between men and women. Among the disorders with pronounced sex bias are Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), where the ratio of males/females diagnosed is approximately 4 to 1. Whether this skewed...

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One in five human genes are not ‘real’

New research could change the face of biomedicine; the human genome is found to contain far fewer “real,” or protein-encoding, genes than it was previously believed. Our DNA may contain far fewer ‘real’ genes than we initially thought. In the early 1990s, scientists set out to map the entire DNA sequence of the human genome. The so-called Human...