Press Release No. 9
Berlin
Systematic Interaction Network Filtering in Biobanks: MDC Neurobiologists Identify Protective Protein against Huntington’s Disease
While seeking targets to attack Huntington’s disease, an incurable inherited neurodegenerative disorder, neurobiologists of the research group led by Professor Erich Wanker of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association found what they were looking for. Using a filtering strategy borrowed from criminologists, the researchers systematically filtered interaction networks of various biological databases.