Addenbrooke's Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, University of Wales College of Medicine other research news

Several letters in Nature Genetics called into question the proposed genetic linkage between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and an allele of A2M.

Addenbrooke's researchers and colleagues found no linkage between AD and A2M in an examination of 3 U.K. patient samples. Similarly, University of Wales researchers and colleagues found no linkage between the deletion and AD in a sample of 2,616 patients in the U.S. and Europe. The Duke group also were unable to find an association. ...