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Tracking what triggers onset of Alzheimer's disease
Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr. | Karen Henley, chief caregiver for her husband, Mike, who is disabled with Alzheimer's, measures his medicine at their home in Westbury. (Dec. 4, 2007)
Critical to understanding Alzheimer's is grasping the complex interplay between genes and the development of the disease.
But here's the problem - and it is one of the toughest in medical science: Even though researchers have found three genes intimately linked to early-onset Alzheimer's, the kind of that occurs before age 65, they have yet to pinpoint the elusive trigger that sets the disease...
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