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Icelandic and British researchers have pinpointed a gene variant that appears to triple the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The news comes via a new report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which said that the rare variant, dubbed TREM 2, is found in only about one per cent of the population.
<p>Certain genes associated with hypertension affect blood pressure from early in life, and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease as you get older. But taking action to keep your blood pressure low can lower your overall risk in spite of genetic tendencies.</p>
Hopes have been raised in the fight against Alzheimer’s after Icelandic scientists made an exciting discovery.
A significant study identifies a genetic variant in the SYCE2 gene that heightens the risk of miscarriage by 22%, shedding light on the genetic causes of pregnancy loss. Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen and their collaborators from Iceland, Denmark, and the USA published a stu