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New, rare genetic form of dementia discovered – News-Medical.Net
A new, rare genetic form of dementia has been discovered by a team of Penn Medicine researchers. This discovery also sheds light on a new pathway that leads to …
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 1 2020
A new, rare genetic form of dementia has been discovered by a team of Penn Medicine researchers. This discovery also sheds light on a new pathway that leads to protein build up in the brain — which causes this newly discovered disease, as well as related neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s Disease — that could be targeted for new therapies. The study was published today in Science.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease ch…
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