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.

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