Article
Exposure to sevoflurane results in changes of transcription factor occupancy in sperm and inheritance of autism
2021-03-09
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> One in 54 children in the U.S. is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). De novo germline and somatic mutations cannot account for all cases of ASD, suggesting that epigenetic alterations triggered by environmental exposures may be responsible for a subset of ASD cases. Human and animal studies have shown that exposure of the developing brain to general anesthetic (GA) agents can trigger...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3ae94e08-f3fa-5135-9353-b12e7157054c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.03.08.434461
