100,000 brains: UK Biobank Imaging Study releases first batch of disease progression data

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[R]esearchers [have recently] released the first results from the UK Biobank Imaging Study, a massive effort that ultimately aims to scan the brains of 100,000 people and use the data in conjunction with detailed health information to investigate disease progression during aging.

“What we’re aiming to do is get a glimpse of the various kinds of markers that we might be able to identify that then presage problems later on,” [explains Karla Miller, lead author of the study.]

The first batch of data contains tens of thousands of significant correlations between various health measures. For example, the preliminary results revealed a link between increased alcohol consumption and signs of injury to brain connections, along with another link between tobacco intake and imaging signals associated with increased iron deposits in the brain.

The researchers are hopeful that further unraveling such complex relationships will eventually allow them to use health measures from the study to predict who will go on to develop a particular disease or who may respond well to a specific intervention.

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