Autism genome open for researchers

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Many hands make light work.

That?s part of the reason Johns Hopkins researchers are sharing a genetic database of thousands of patients with autism and their direct relatives. Researchers at Johns Hopkins? McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine hope the shared data will speed autism research even while they use the data to track down the genetic roots of the complex disease.

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