This study attempts to identify the “protective” genetic factors that can modify or reduce the effect of APOEε4 on Alzheimer’s disease risk and to identify new pathogenic mechanisms, proteins, and pathways that inform development of therapeutic targets and diagnostics.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00401-024-02721-1 (open access).

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    6 months ago

    Best I can tell from the image is that people with triple-helix left-handed DNA should be resistant to Alzheimer’s. So far every patient who has died from Alzheimer’s has been shown to have standard double-helix right-handed DNA in their genomes and also not from outer space.

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      6 months ago

      Thanks, nice humor and great critique of those twisted illustrations we often see … mostly created by AI at low budget