Developmental Disorders: Discovery of New Mutations

17th June, 2019

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[Source: Science Daily]

Developmental disorders are neurologically-based conditions that affect the acquisition of specific skills such as attention, memory, language and social interaction. Although they have a genetic cause, this is often difficult to detect through standard genetic analysis of the parents. The mutation found in the affected child is therefore termed a ‘de novo’ mutation (DNM).

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