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Alzheimer’s genes identified

Three new genes associated with Alzheimer’s have been discovered, to the delight of researchers in the field.

In two papers published in Nature Genetics, two teams describe how they compared the genomes of sufferers to healthy controls to identify potential gene variations leading to the disease. Philippe Amouyel’s team identified variants within CLU and CR1, while Julie Williams and her team also identified CLU and added PICALM to the mix.

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