{"id":203762,"date":"2025-01-14T23:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/single-gene-links-autism-epilepsy-via-brain-circuit-development"},"modified":"2025-01-14T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:24:17","slug":"single-gene-links-autism-epilepsy-via-brain-circuit-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/single-gene-links-autism-epilepsy-via-brain-circuit-development","title":{"rendered":"Single Gene Links Autism, Epilepsy via Brain Circuit Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/single-gene-links-autism-epilepsy-via-brain-circuit-development2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research uncovers how neuropilin2 gene mutations disrupt brain balance, linking inhibitory neuron migration to autism and epilepsy. Study offers insights for targeted therapies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source: <\/strong>UCR<\/p>\n<p><strong>The gene <em>neuropilin2<\/em> encodes a receptor involved in cell-cell interactions in the brain and plays a key role in regulating the development of neural circuits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Neuropilin2<\/em> controls migration of inhibitory neurons as well as the formation and maintenance of synaptic connections in excitatory neurons \u2014 two crucial components of brain activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research uncovers how neuropilin2 gene mutations disrupt brain balance, linking inhibitory neuron migration to autism and epilepsy. Study offers insights for targeted therapies. Source: UCR The gene neuropilin2 encodes a receptor involved in cell-cell interactions in the brain and plays a key role in regulating the development of neural circuits. Neuropilin2 controls migration of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}