DNA mapping of Alzheimer's patients gives deep dive view

Working with $2 million in new grants to be announced this week, the researchers for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative will, for the first time, start mapping the DNA of 800 participants in a study attempting to find the root causes of memory loss. Robert Green, HMS lecturer on medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is coordinating the sequencing efforts.

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