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Jake Michaelson, associate professor of psychiatry in the UI Carver College of Medicine, was the lead scientist from the University of Iowa working on the study. identifying new autism genes.

University of Iowa researchers help discover 60 new autism genes

Scientists at the University of Iowa contributed to a study published in Nature Genetics that identified 60 autism spectrum-associated genes with exome-wide significance, including five new genes not previously implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders. According to the press release, UI researchers…