Alzheimer’s Tied to Mutation Harming Immune Response

Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 01:10 in Health & Medicine

A mutation to a gene, TREM2, is suspected of interfering with the brain’s ability to prevent the buildup of toxic shards of a protein that accumulate in plaques on the brain.

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