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The self-interest of adolescents overrules cooperation in social dilemmas.

Wu X; Fu H; Aydogan G; Feng C; Qin S; Zeng Y; Liu C

This study looked at how much teenagers and adults work together in a game. It found that teenagers don't cooperate as much as adults because they don't feel as good about being nice back when someone is nice to them. Both teenagers and adults could guess if others would cooperate, but teenagers cared more about themselves than about the team.

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Pathogenic variants in the cohesin loader subunit MAU2 underlie a distinct Cornelia de Lange Syndrome subtype.

Parenti I; Hesters A; Gil-Salvador M; Duffy L; Kanber D; Beygo J; Kerkhof J; Steenpaß L; Leitão E; Woestefeld J; Boone PM; Kao EM; Alabdi L; Aldhalaan HM; Alkuraya FS; Alshammari MJ; Antonarakis SE; Basel D; Cassinari K; de Polli Cellin L; Clause AR; de Lima Jorge AA; de Castro Leal A; Collins SC; Durand B; Eckhold J; Hashem MO; Jayakar P; Khan AO; Kato K; Kubica R; Lyon GJ; Marchi E; McCarrier J; Kimmig LK; Mizuno S; Nicolas G; Nishio Y; Ogi T; Pié J; Prell J; Puisac B; Ramos FJ; Ranza E; Redin C; Rush E; Saitoh S; Shamseldin HE; Starling S; Astiazaran-Symonds E; Eltahir SH; Kuechler A; Sadikovic B; Yalcin B; Wendt KS; Kaiser FJ

The study looks at a gene called MAU2 and how changes in it might cause a disease similar to Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS). Scientists found that when MAU2 doesn't work properly, it affects another protein, NIPBL, and can lead to symptoms like short height and small head size. They also used mice to show that if MAU2 is not right, it can cause problems like in humans.

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