Not exact matches
At Cox's urging, Mash set out to conduct an independent study of ALS and Alzheimer's
brains using samples from her own
human brain bank.
Using postmortem
human brain samples, the researchers found that variations in the number of copies of the C4 gene that people had, and the length of their gene, could predict how active the gene was in the
brain.
Usually, because of the inaccessibility of
brain tissue in living
humans, epigenetic studies are carried out
using blood
samples.
Falk's group claims that the hobbit
brain fell neatly into the normal
human group
used for comparison, not with the microcephalic
sample.