Too much protein HUWE1 causes intellectual disability

Posted August 31st, 2012 by PCC STEM & filed under Health Sciences.

Two to three percent of children are born with an intellectual disability. Possibly by a genetic defect, but in 80 percent of these cases, we do not know -- yet -- which genes are responsible. Increased production of the HUWE1 protein is the cause in some patients, new research shows.

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