通过条件选择性推断新发现的阿尔茨海默病遗传关联:对陶氏假说的潜在影响

Scott Hebert1, Eric Nels Pederson1, Zhengqing Ouyang1

  • 1Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.

概括

研究人员确定了阿尔茨海默病 (AD) 和轻度认知障碍 (MCI) 的关键遗传标志物. 这项研究可能会导致这些神经退行性疾病的早期检测和更好的患者结果.

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