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Although most cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have no evidence of inheritance, scientists are finding valuable clues to the disease among familial cases...
By some measures, ApoE found its first companions in 2009 when scientists reported three additional genes robustly linked to late-onset Alzheimer disease...
Somewhere on the short arm of the ninth chromosome, there lies a locus, or loci, that can cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or frontotemporal lobar dementia (FTLD)...
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A much greater investment in AD research will be needed before scientists can draw reliable conclusions about what factors increase or decrease risk of developing AD...
The finger pointing in the molecular culprit behind AD has shifted in recent years from amyloid plaques to its building blocks—free-floating Aβ peptides...