Bugs R Us: Restoring sociability with microbiota in autism.

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Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Published: April 2021

In a recent publication in , Buffington et al. provide a fascinating example of hologenomic behavioral regulation in an autism mouse model. The authors report that gut bacteria from wild-type mice rescue the social deficit of Cntnap2 knockout mice.

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