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Episode Title: A.I. Reveals Autism-Linked Changes in "Junk" DNA | SciShow News
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Description: Scientists know that genetic factors can explain many of autism’s features - but have autism researchers been looking for those features in the wrong DNA? A new study uses A.I. to uncover changes linked to autism in the stretches of non coding DNA. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4724890/ https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/autism-spectrum-disorder https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5125207/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077788/ https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/genetics-dictionary/def/de-novo-mutation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-019-0420-0 https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/basics/noncodingdna https://www.pnas.org/content/115/15/E3481 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-019-0420-0 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929715004942 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867417310061 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6386/327.abstract https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-019-0420-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0107-y https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2019-05/sf-nco052419.php Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/junk-in-a-drawer-gm171114507-20194746 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dna-analysis-concept-background-of-genome-sequence-gm1077801014-288732525 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/genomic-analysis-visualization-dna-genomes-sequencing-deoxyribonucleic-acid-genetic-gm1096919364-294539036 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/brain-left-and-right-creativity-functions-sketch-concept-gm1044908342-279655851 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/brain-left-and-right-functions-sketch-concept-with-social-and-business-gm1044908312-279655850 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/womans-head-profile-gm1026029350-275189143 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/genetic-dna-sequence-gm1012587164-272758050 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cpu-and-computer-chip-concept-gm948285004-258899032 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D1S80Demo.png


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