…SNP-cortical area correlationsis not commonly used. The researchers finally found what they needed in another study already under way called the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), an ongoing public-private project supported primarily by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with pharmaceutical and related industries and not-for-profit organizations providing support. The researchers then set to work examining the MECP2 variations in the hundreds of patients involved in that study. "Lo and behold, it replicated," says Schork…