Monday, February 13, 2006

Alzheimer's risk 'is 80% genetic'

What does this say about prevention techniques? There isn't all that much to be done to prevent AD if you have a genetic predisposition.

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The researchers estimated heritability - what proportion of risk for a disease across a population is genetic - for Alzheimer's to be between 58% and 79%.

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