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Study of Clinical Data Links Two Genetic Mutations to Altered Risk of Alzheimer's Disease (1 of 2)

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Study of Clinical Data Links Two Genetic Mutations to Altered Risk of Alzheimer's Disease (1 of 2)

image: MS4A4A (green) and TREM2 (red) were both localized to the plasma membrane and organelles of human macrophages. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 14, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Deming at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO; and colleagues was titled, "The MS4A gene cluster is a key modulator of soluble TREM2 and Alzheimer's disease risk." view more 

Credit: Y. Deming <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)


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