Carlos Cruchaga and Alison Goate, Washington University School of Medicine (IMAGE)

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Carlos Cruchaga and Alison Goate, Washington University School of Medicine

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Carlos Cruchaga, Ph.D., (left) and Alison M. Goate, D.Phil., led a research effort that has identified rare variations in a gene that double a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life.

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Robert J. Boston

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