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...recent study co-authored by Harvard Medical School Professor Rudolph E. Tanzi has found that a protein once believed to have no other function except playing a key role in Alzheimer’s disease may actually be beneficial to the immune system...
...Tanzi and colleagues discovered similarities in function between the Alzheimer’s disease-related protein beta-amyloid, or A-beta, and LL-37, a well-known protein found in the first line of defense in the immune system...
...gene discovered on chromosome 14, which had the strongest association of the five, was also the only one identified that had not been observed before in any context, Tanzi said. “That’s always the most fun,” he added...
...study broke new ground in part because technology developed in the past three or four years enabled the team to probe over a billion individual genetic markers with far greater speed than previously possible, Tanzi said...
...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?...