Motor neurone disease: Researchers identify new group of gene suspects

Monday, March 16, 2015 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have identified a new host of gene variants that could make people vulnerable to sporadic motor neuron disease, according to a report. Motor neuron disease (MND) is a group of diseases in which the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow slowly degenerate and die.

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