Genome | How Personalized Medicine Is Changing: Alzheimer's Disease - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 25 Jan 15By then, researchers had identified three genetic mutations that can be inherited and, if they are, cause a form of Alzheimer's called early onset because it strikes before age 65 and sometimes far earlier. Since 2004, Hornstein and all five of her siblings have been tested. Hornstein is the only one who doesn't carry PSEN1, one of the mutations.