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Department News
Study Links Gene Variant with Alzheimer’s Disease Resilience
04/27/2021
Dr. Bekris’ team has found that Alzheimer’s disease resilience may be modulated by interactions between a TNFRSF1B gene variant and the protein sTNFR2.
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Precision Medicine in Migraine Treatment
04/26/2021
With their Co-Laboratories Award, Drs. Mata and Ahmed will team up to develop a way to predict patient response to FDA-approved treatments for migraine prevention.
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Researchers to Study Genetics of Focal Cortical Dysplasia with New NIH Grant
04/21/2021
Dr. Lal’s team will perform the most comprehensive genetic analysis of focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) to confirm proposed FCD-associated genes and identify novel FCD causal genes and variants.
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