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• February 03, 2012
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  Gene regulator in brains executive hub tracked across lifespan -- NIH study

  Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:01pm EST

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  For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of an environmentally responsive regulatory mechanism that turns genes on and off in the brains executive hub. Among key findings of the study by National Institutes of Health scientists: genes implicated in schizophrenia and autism turn out to be members of a select club of genes in which regulatory activity peaks during an environmentally-sensitive critical period in development.