PLOS Papers on Tremor Condition, Medical Plant Populations, Brewing Yeast Transcriptomics

Sep 28, 2020

In PLOS Genetics, researchers from Stanford University and elsewhere describe apparent ties between familial forms of adult-onset essential tremor conditions and TUB transcription factor-coding gene variants, initially uncovered with exome sequencing on 10 tremor-affected and half a dozen tremor-unaffected members of the same family.

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