Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: In 1950 , she reported her work on Ac\/Ds and her ideas about gene regulation in a paper entitled `` The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize '' published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .
Simplified: In 1950 , she reported her work on Ac\/Ds and her ideas about gene regulation in a paper .