Michael Belloy at Washington University in St. Louis noted that the findings could help distinguish between genes that directly affect pathology, and those that instead help maintain cognition in the ...

For example, Huntington’s disease (HD), the first expansion disorder discovered, occurs when a cysteine-arginine-guanine (CAG) trinucleotide in the HTT gene swells to 40 or more repeats. Such ...

The clinical worsening after microglia envelop neurons suggests the phenomenon is harmful, the authors noted. “With disease progression, microglial behavior changes from positive to negative,” ...

SORL1 knockout, knockin, and transgenic mice are now in the Research Models database. The database will be updated as more models become available.