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The long reach of evolution and development. Effects on the Alzheimer brain
1Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. Kosik@cnd.bwh.harvard.edu
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
Genes that cause late-onset neurodegenerative disease may have the property of evolvability. Their tendency to collect mutations may have contributed to the rapid evolution of the brain.