Their Genes Put Them At High Risk Of Alzheimer’s. So They’re Experimenting – On Themselves

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Wed, 08/23/2017 - 4:29am

SAN DIEGO – Everyone at the meeting had one thing in common: a ticking time bomb buried in their DNA. The engineers, physicians, financiers, and farmers gathered here this month all had learned through genetic testing that they carry a copy or two of APOE4, an allele that substantially increas...

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Their Genes Put Them At High Risk Of Alzheimer’s. So They’re Experimenting – On Themselves

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