Contact: Jim Dryden
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Washington University School of Medicine

Alzheimer's Disease Genes

Caption: For several years, scientists have known that genetic mutations are linked to inherited forms of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. But now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that some of the same genes also play a role in more common late-onset forms of Alzheimer's.

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