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Dec 25, 2023

Defying Genetics: How One Patient’s Unique Mutation Offers New Hopes in Alzheimer’s Prevention

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience

Breaking link between early, late stages of disease may prevent dementia.

Alzheimer’s disease has plagued one large Colombian family for generations, striking down half of its members in the prime of life. But one member of that family evaded what had seemed would be fate: Despite inheriting the genetic defect that caused her relatives to develop dementia in their 40s, she stayed cognitively healthy into her 70s.

Study Reveals Protective Gene Mutation

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