Elizabeth Heron, Ph.D.
BBRF Awards & Recognition
2016 NARSAD Young Investor Grantee
Elizabeth Heron, Ph.D.
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BBRF Awards & Recognition
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Elizabeth Heron, Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, hopes to shed light on the problem of “missing heritability” in autism by studying the effects of epigenetic changes, which alter the expression of genes. Epigenetic changes can cause genes to function differently depending on their parent of origin, potentially explaining how some parents who are unaffected by autism can pass the disorder on to their children.
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