{"id":244545,"date":"2026-09-27T09:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/hundreds-of-autism-mutations-converge-on-just-two-molecular-patterns-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2026-09-27T09:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:03:35","slug":"hundreds-of-autism-mutations-converge-on-just-two-molecular-patterns-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/hundreds-of-autism-mutations-converge-on-just-two-molecular-patterns-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Autism Mutations Converge on Just Two Molecular Patterns in the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hundreds-of-autism-mutations-converge-on-just-two-molecular-patterns-in-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers analyzed gene expression across 17 autism-linked mouse lines and found two opposing molecular states, suggesting diverse risk mutations can <i>converge<\/i> on shared brain biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers analyzed gene expression across 17 autism-linked mouse lines and found two opposing molecular states, suggesting diverse risk mutations can converge on shared brain biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244545","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=244545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}