Items Tagged ‘brain disorder’
December 29, 2011
Gene behind fatal brain disorder isolated
A blood test could help diagnose a devastating brain disorder that is often misdiagnosed and ends in fatality. People who inherit the abnormal gene CSF1R always develop HDLS (hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids), a disorder of the brain’s white matter that leads to death between 40 and 60 years…’Given this finding, we may soon have […]