A new gene that could help predict who gets Alzheimer’s and what age has been discovered by Duke University scientists, and it sits close to a gene well-known to increase the risk of the disease.
The ApoE4 gene is a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD4). People who inherit the ApoE4 gene from one parent are three times more likely to develop AD, and those who carry two copies are ten times more likely to get the disease. The other allele called ApoE3 has not been implicated in developing Alzheimer’s. However,  Dr. Allen Roses, who led the group from …read more