09-01-2026 18:04 via medpagetoday.com

Alzheimer's Risk May Be Driven by a Single Gene

(MedPage Today) -- Most Alzheimer's disease and nearly half of all dementia was associated with variations in the APOE gene, a study of 470,000 older adults suggested.
In Alzheimer's disease, APOE3 and APOE4 were tied to 71.5% to 92.7% of cases...
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