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May 21, 2018

In PLOS Genetics, researchers from France, the US, and Germany describe a mutation in the KAT2B enzyme-coding gene that appears to broaden the clinical symptoms found in individuals carrying ADD3 mutations implicated in intellectual disability, microcephaly, cataracts, and skeletal defects.

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In PNAS this week: analysis of proteolytic enzymes secreted by circulating tumor cells, phylogenetic study of Fv1 evolution, and more.

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