Miller School researchers collaborated with an international team to identify a new gene associated with Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans. Published April 10 in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, their study provides new directions for biological, genetic and therapeutic studies of Alzheimer’s disease.
Miller School researchers co-led an international study to identify a new genetic syndrome characterized by deafness, the most common human sensory disorder, and myopia (nearsightedness), the most common human eye disorder. Published online April 1 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the study demonstrates that the SLITRK6 protein plays a critical role in the development of normal hearing and vision in humans and mice.
Mustafa Tekin, M.D., associate professor in the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and member of the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, has been awarded a $3.1 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify genes that cause deafness and are associated with inner ear anomalies.
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