Researchers Find More Alzheimer’s Disease Genes
Harvard researchers say they have been able to identify more genes associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s disease is the name of a degenerative brain disease that currently has no cure and is fatal.
The researchers state that by examining the human genome, they have identified 4 new areas containing Alzheimer’s genes.
They say that particular interest should be paid to chromosome 14, which contains the largest cluster of genes found to be linked with the disease.
“We are on the cusp of a rare ’science moment’ that could alter the way we diagnose, treat and prevent Alzheimer’s disease,” Rudolph Tanzi of Massachusetts General Hospital, who led the study, said in a statement.
The study can be found in the American Journal of Human Genetics.