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In his oft-quoted 1859 speech “Self-Made Men,” Frederick Douglass famously declared that men were the “architects of their own good fortunes,” and that successful men were “indebted to themselves for themselves.?...
The breadth of the genetic screen—the largest conducted for Alzheimer’s today—enabled the scientists to discover genes that otherwise may never have been tied to the disease, according to Tanzi.
The screen of over 500,000 gene markers turned up five genes with strong associations with the onset of Alzheimer’s. Only one of those, the protein APOE, had been associated with the disease before.
“You get genes you would never have dreamed of,” Tanzi said. “That’s the way genetics should be done. You should be surprised.”
Tanzi said his team will continue their family-based research, focusing on the newly identified genes, with the “long-term vision” of creating new therapies to control the progression of Alzheimer’s.