{"id":150909,"date":"2022-11-23T15:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-worlds-largest-alzheimers-study-has-made-a-gene-discovery-that-could-lead-to-treatments"},"modified":"2022-11-23T15:26:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:26:13","slug":"the-worlds-largest-alzheimers-study-has-made-a-gene-discovery-that-could-lead-to-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-worlds-largest-alzheimers-study-has-made-a-gene-discovery-that-could-lead-to-treatments","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest Alzheimer\u2019s study has made a gene discovery that could lead to treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-largest-alzheimers-study-has-made-a-gene-discovery-that-could-lead-to-treatments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery could lead to potential future targeted therapies and treatments for this brain disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found two novel genes that increase an individual\u2019s risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD). This disorder is the leading cause of dementia and has an estimated heritability \u2014genetic factor causing variation in the population, or an inherited trait\u2014 of 70%.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Digicomphoto\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Details from the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery could lead to potential future targeted therapies and treatments for this brain disorder. Researchers have found two novel genes that increase an individual\u2019s risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD). This disorder is the leading cause of dementia and has an estimated heritability \u2014genetic factor causing variation in the population, or an inherited trait\u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}