The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) and 23andMe Inc (23andMe) are sharing genetic data with researchers worldwide through the Fox Insight Data Exploration Network (Fox DEN). De-identified data on approximately 650,000 unique genetic...
A study led by the National Institutes of Health researchers appears to have located five genes that may play a role in whether a person will experience Lewy body dementia. Lewy bodies are also hallmarks of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. “Lewy...
The choice of shoe, surface and type of sport can all be contributing factors to an anterior cruciate ligament rupture. Genes could also play a decisive role, researchers at Lund University in Sweden suggest. By analyzing data from the Swedish Twin Register along with...
Even for people with a gene mutation tied to Parkinson’s disease, coffee consumption may be associated with a lower risk of actually developing the disease, according to a new study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of...
A group of genetic researchers from The Netherlands, the US, and Norway suggest a possible way to predict not only which patients are likely to have osteoporosis fractures but also when they might occur. “Using a genome-wide association study, we were able to...
