Alzheimer’s Risk Gene Tracked in Search for New Therapies
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Scientists mapped the step-by-step actions that lead to late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, research that may offer new paths to developing treatments for the ailment.
People who carried the APOE4 gene, known to increase the risk of acquiring Alzheimer’s later in life, without having the disease, experienced changes in the expression of genes in their brains that resembled those of Alzheimer’s patients, according to a study published today in the journal Nature.