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Spectrum: Autism Research News

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Mark Zylka

Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

April 2021
Female mouse with its litter of pups.

Few autism researchers control for the ‘litter effect’ — this needs to change

by ,  /  27 April 2021

Anyone who uses multiple animals from a small number of litters to increase sample size is making a serious mistake. The similarities within individual litters will heavily skew the results.

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October 2013

Length matters: Disease implications for long genes

by  /  22 October 2013

A gene’s length may influence its expression, and this has implications for autism, which tends to be linked to particularly long genes, says Mark Zylka. 

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