A new way of approaching the early detection of Alzheimer's disease
Friday, December 23, 2011 - 10:10
in Health & Medicine
One of our genes is apolipoprotein E, which often appears with a variation which nobody would want to have: APOEµ4, the main genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's disease. It is estimated that at least 40 percent of the sporadic patients affected by this disease are carriers of APOEµ4, but this also means that much more still remains to be studied.