Newly identified genetic marker involved in aggressive Alzheimer's disease

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 05:28 in Health & Medicine

A gene variation that appears to predict the rate at which Alzheimer's disease will progress has been uncovered by an international team of Alzheimer's disease experts, led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, the findings help determine how rapidly Alzheimer's patients may develop full-blown dementia after their diagnosis...

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