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Webinar: Sébastien Jacquemont on gene variants’ ties to autism

 /  24 February 2016
The Presenter
Presenter
Sébastien Jacquemont
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Montreal

Sébastien Jacquemont is associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Montreal in Canada.

On 24 February, Sébastien Jacquemont described some of the cognitive, behavioral and neural changes that underlie the association between genetic variants and developmental conditions such as autism. He also discussed clinical trials of treatments for fragile X syndrome.

You can watch a complete replay of the webinar above.

Use the comments section below to submit questions we didn’t have time to discuss during the Q&A session or to pose follow-up questions for Jacquemont.

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