New clues about hereditary spastic paraplegia
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
New research is yielding clues about hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), a group of inherited neurological disorders that affect about 20,000 people in the United States. A new study offers the first detailed account of the biochemical workings of atlastin, a protein produced by one of the genes linked to HSP.