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Autism: Changes in RNA editing in the brain play an important role, scientists find
January 31, 2019 by NewsBot
A team of scientists has discovered important clues as to what happens in the brains of people with autism. The new insights involve RNA editing, in which modifications in RNA alter nucleotides, whose patterns carry the data required for constructing proteins.