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Sporadic Autism Exomes Reveal a Highly Interconnected Protein Network of De Novo Mutations
Published April 4, 2012
in Nature
Researchers demonstrate that de-novo point mutations are overwhelmingly paternal in origin (4:1 bias) and positively correlated with paternal age, consistent with the modest increased risk for children of older fathers to develop ASD.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350576/
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