Singapore team identifies gene that could play role in autism

Researchers from Duke-NUS have pinpointed a gene known as CDH13 that could play a key role in causing autism. The team found that changes in the gene cause the brain's circuitry and how its cells communicate with each other to work differently than usual. The research, the first of its kind in the world on this particular gene, may open the way for drugs - for instance, those that enhance brain connectivity - to be developed in future.

• The Straits Times, 18 January 2017, Top of the News, pA8