In all CS cases, said Morrow who treats autism patients at the E. P. Bradley Hospital in East Providence, boys have a mutation on the SLC9A6 gene on the X chromosome that
disables production of a protein called NHE6 that is important for neurological development.
Not exact matches
The vaccines stimulate the
production of antibody
proteins that latch onto and
disable the MERS virus, researchers report July 28 in Nature Communications.
The mutation turns out to
disable production of a neurodevelopmentally important
protein called NHE6.
Short pieces
of RNA, called microRNAs, control
protein production by causing the
proteins» RNA templates (known as messenger RNA or mRNA) to be
disabled by the cell, according to Whitehead Institute scientists.