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Duke University researchers published in The Lancet results of a study of 67 patients with presumed Alzheimer's whose brains were examined after death. Every patient who had the APOE4 gene was found to have the disease's characteristic neurofibrillary plaques and tangles. Of the 10 patients (15 percent) found by autopsy not to have Alzheimer's, none had the e4 allele. On the other hand, 25 percent of the patients found by autopsy to have the disease were lacking the e4 allele. ...