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Genetic variant may increase risk for CTE severity among older individuals with repetitive head impacts
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Genetic variant may increase risk for CTE severity among older individuals with repetitive head impacts

by Boston University School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How could two individuals who both played football for 10 years and developed CTE have different disease severity? How could some individuals develop dementia in their 50’s while other never develop dementia at all? Perhaps the answer lies in their genes. Repetitive head impact (RHI)...