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27 May 2019, 7:45 pm

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Leveraging artificial intelligence techniques, researchers have demonstrated that mutations in so-called 'junk' DNA can cause autism. The study, published May 27 in Nature Genetics, is the first to functionally link such mutations to the neurodevelopmental condition.



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28 May 2019, 4:10 am

The only reason these junk or so-called non-coding regions are suspect is because we don't actually know their function.