Balancing Act: Maintaining Amino Acid Levels in the Autistic Brain.

Neuron

GW Institute for Neuroscience and Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA; GW Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA. Electronic address:

Published: February 2017

The ever-expanding number of genes that are mutated in autism is showing us how imbalances in fundamental cellular processes can lead to disease. A recent study by Tărlungeanu et al. (2016) identifies a form of ASD resulting from a failure of the brain to properly import amino acids.

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