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Johns Hopkins Scientists Identify New Function of Learning Gene Common to All Mammalian Brain Cells


Research on mice could guide the pursuit of treatments for brain development disorders in children with mutations in the SYNGAP1 gene. Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine have discovered a previously unknown function of the SYNGAP1 gene, a DNA sequence that controls memory and learning in mam

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