UCI discovers new Alzheimer's gene

Friday, August 7, 2009 - 04:07 in Health & Medicine

A UC Irvine study has found that a gene called TOMM40 appears twice as often in people with Alzheimer's disease than in those without it. Alzheimer's, for which there is no cure, is the leading cause of elderly dementia...

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