They also looked at data
from healthy human brains, to identify networks of genes that seem to work together, and were associated with the disease.
SNTF is a protein that is present at undetectable levels
in healthy human brains, but is produced under conditions where nerve cells are traumatized and begin to die.
Researchers have established how a protein called alpha - synuclein, which is closely associated with Parkinson's Disease, functions
in healthy human brains.
L1 - associated genomic regions are deleted in somatic cells of
the healthy human brain.
Interestingly, it is known that in
the healthy human brain, new nerve cells are formed in the striatum.
Dr Fanni Gergely from the University of Cambridge said: «The development of
a healthy human brain is an incredibly complex process that relies on stem cells and the coordinated actions of many genes.