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IQSEC1 gene mutations cause new intellectual disability syndrome

October 22, 2019October 24, 2019consanguineous marriages, intellectual disability, IQSEC1, Research, schizo gene

It used to take several years or sometimes decades to unequivocally identify the genes that cause rare human syndromes that affect very few individuals. Nowadays,

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This brain circuit allows the feeding and memory centers to talk to each other

February 19, 2019February 19, 2019appetite, Brain, chromosome 17, hippocampus, hypothalamus, intellectual disability, Memory, NCOR1/2, neurodevelopmental defects, Research

It was not what the researchers were expecting to find when they set out to investigate how the protein complex NCOR1/2 regulates memory. “We knew

From the Labs: Microscopy image of a brain region that coordinates survival adaptations to food shortages. Image courtesy of the authors/Cell Reports, 2021.