Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a protein involved in processing fats. A variant of this gene called APOE ε4 is the highest and most common known risk factor for Alzheimer’s. People with a single copy of ...
The study, published in Nature Medicine, also concludes that those individuals homozygous for APOE4 also develop the disease earlier than those with other variants of the APOE gene. These findings ...
A MULTINATIONAL cohort study of 4,592 individuals has revealed significant sex and ancestry-based differences in how the APOE-ε4 gene influences Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, with women of African ...