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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the parkinsons-disease desk.
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A medRxiv preprint analysing 81,870 UK Biobank participants found that structural deviations with ageing and neurological disease were concentrated in the basal forebrain’s Ch4 compartment. The study also linked Ch4 deficits with later dementia and Parkinson’s disease diagnoses.
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A study of 62,560 individuals across diverse ancestries found no evidence that rare variants in TMEM106B are associated with Parkinson's disease risk. The findings suggest the gene's rare variation does not play a major role in PD susceptibility, despite evidence that TMEM106B expression is altered in the brains of people with the disease.