New mechanism discovered for Alzheimer’s risk gene
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 16:21
in Biology & Nature
For decades, scientists have known that people with two copies of a gene called apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4) are much more likely to have Alzheimer’s disease at age 65 than the rest of the population. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute have identified a new connection between ApoE4 and protein build-up associated with Alzheimer’s that provides […]