Genomic ‘Dark Matter’ Bridges Gap Between Parkinson’s, Other Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Study Finds
Researchers from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School found more than 70,000 genetic sequences that do not encode proteins — called transcribed noncoding elements (TNEs) — active in dopamine neurons that are gradually lost over the course of Parkinsons’ disease. Their findings indicate there may be…