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MGH Researchers Connect Alzheimer's Mutations To Cell-Death Process
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- July 18, 1997
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- Massachusetts General Hospital
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- Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital have discovered that two genes associated with early-onset Alzheimer's disease are involved in programmed cell death. They also showed that an Alzheimer's-causing mutation in one genes increases the propensity of nerve cells to undergo the cell-death process called apoptosis.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have discovered that two genes associated with early-onset Alzheimer's disease are involved in programmed cell death, a natural process in which unneeded or worn-out cells commit suicide. They also showed that an Alzheimer's-causing mutation in one of these genes increases the propensity of nerve cells to undergo the cell-death process, which also is called apoptosis.
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Massachusetts General Hospital. "MGH Researchers Connect Alzheimer's Mutations To Cell-Death Process." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 18 July 1997. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1997/07/970718110026.htm>.
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