@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz avatar albertcardona , to random

"A spatial transcriptomic atlas of autism-associated genes identifies convergence in the developing human thalamus", Aivazidis et al. 2025
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.685843v1

"The developing thalamus showed the most prevalent expression of autism susceptibility genes... Within the thalamus, excitatory neurons showed the most enriched expression"

Makes a lot of good sense relative to the hyper- and hypo-sensitivity in autism: the neurons that relay sensory signals to the brain are impacted the most.

Browse the gene expression data:
https://www.stageatlas.org/

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random

Autism may be the price of human intelligence, linked to human brain evolution

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/9/msaf189/8245036?login=false