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A large population-level analysis led by researchers at University College London has suggested that common variants of the ...

Large-scale UK Biobank research suggests that variations in the APOE gene, linked to up to 90% of Alzheimer’s cases ...

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One gene called APOE has long been known to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but without a specific variant most ...