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" Scientists have identified a set of proteins that appear to be involved in more than 130 brain diseases. The proteins were discovered in brain tissue samples removed from patients undergoing brain surgery by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Edinburgh University. They were extracted from synapses - the junctions where two nerve cells meet - where they bind together to form a molecular machine known as the postsynaptic density (PSD). Professor Seth Grant, who led the study, said that over 130 brain diseases now appear to involve the PSD. &amp;#039;These diseases include common debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer&amp;#039;s disease, Parkinson&amp;#039;s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, as well as epilepsies and childhood developmental diseases including forms of autism and learning disability,&amp;#039; he revealed. &amp;#039;Our findings have shown that the human PSD is at centre stage of a large range of human diseases affecting many millions of people,&amp;#039; the professor added. According to the researchers, the discovery could enable scientists to develop new treatments that could be used on many diseases, as well as genetic tests to aid diagnosis. The findings are published in the journal Nature Neuroscience and come just days after researchers at University College London&amp;#039;s Institute of Neurology published details about a gene called PINK1 and its apparent role in Parkinson&amp;#039;s disease. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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