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Tracking what triggers onset of Alzheimer's disease

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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