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Study: Having Alzheimer’s genes may increase your risk of epilepsy
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Study: Having Alzheimer’s genes may increase your risk of epilepsy

by American Academy of Neurology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People with a genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s disease may have an increased risk of epilepsy and people with a certain type of epilepsy may have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published in the May 24, 2023, online issue of Neurology. “Our research found that...

New Alzheimer’s genes discovered in world’s largest study
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New Alzheimer’s genes discovered in world’s largest study

by  Cardiff University Study setup and power. a, Schematic of the study setup. The AD association of genes identified in stage 1 was confirmed in stage 2 and significance was determined by meta-analysis. Variant characteristics were investigated in a merged mega-sample rather than the meta-sample, allowing more accurate variant effect size estimates for variant categories/age-at-onset bins. The mega-sample...