Gladstone scientists Katie Pollard and Sean Whalen (IMAGE)

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Gladstone scientists Katie Pollard and Sean Whalen

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Sean Whalen (left), Katie Pollard (right), and their colleagues at Gladstone Institutes discover that many changes to the genomes of early humans had opposing effects from each other, possibly because of a delicate balance between improved cognition and psychiatric disease risk.

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