A new study finds a gene known as APOE is a major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease for certain demographic groups They found the risk was strongest for white individuals and for older women. APOE ...

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If a gene allele clearly raises risk for a devastating disease, it might seem a no-brainer to assume that the variant protein contributes to pathogenesis, and that correcting this rogue factor could ...

The APOE ε4 allele was linked to clinical expression and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in people with Down syndrome, a dual-center cohort study showed. Among 464 adults with Down syndrome, APOE ε4 ...

EATING plenty of meat could be linked to lower dementia risk – but only for 25 per cent of Brits. Adults at higher risk of Alzheimer’s who ate more chicken, turkey and beef were less likely to develop ...

The Alzheimer's risk gene APOE ε4 drives the aggressive, brain-wide Type 2 subtype of ALS, causing cognitive decline.

Apolipoprotein E4 is the strongest genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, yet efforts to make a therapy against it have not paid off. That may be about to change. David Holtzman and ...

In a recent study under review at the Alzheimer's Research & Therapy journal and currently posted to the Research Square* preprint server, researchers investigate the role of neurotrophic factors (NFs ...

Alzheimer’s may be driven far more by genetics than previously thought, with one gene playing an outsized role. Researchers found that up to nine in ten cases could be linked to the APOE gene — even ...

The strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease is the apolipoprotein E type 4 allele (ApoE ε4). Research presented by Manish Paranjpe at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear ...