Genetics of the nervous system articles within Nature

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• News | 18 March 2012

  Bone-marrow transplant reverses Rett syndrome in mice

  Rare autism spectrum disorder is partially caused by faulty immune cells in the brain.

  • Ewen Callaway

• Article | 18 March 2012

  Teneurins instruct synaptic partner matching in an olfactory map

  Two members of the Teneurin transmembrane protein family are shown to control the synaptic partner matching in the Drosophila olfactory system.

  • Weizhe Hong
  • , Timothy J. Mosca
  •  & Liqun Luo

• News & Views | 08 February 2012

  How intelligence changes with age

  An analysis of common genetic variants shows that hereditary factors that influence intelligence in childhood also affect it in old age. Such work could signal the end of the nature–nurture controversy. See Letter p.212

  • Robert Plomin

• Research Highlights | 15 June 2011

  Extended hunt for autism genes

• Review Article | 10 November 2010

  Developmental genetics of vertebrate glial–cell specification

  • David H. Rowitch
  •  & Arnold R. Kriegstein