Head injuries can alter hundreds of genes and lead to serious brain diseases

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/uoc--hic030617.php

Public Release: 6-Mar-2017
Head injuries can alter hundreds of genes and lead to serious brain diseases
University of California - Los Angeles

Head injuries can harm hundreds of genes in the brain in a way that increases people's risk for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, UCLA life scientists report.

The researchers identified for the first time master genes that they believe control hundreds of other genes which are linked to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, stroke, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, depression, schizophrenia and other disorders.

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