Degeneration of myelin in the brain’s white-matter fiber pathways is increasingly considered to be a key component of Alzheimer’s disease and researchers now say that the process begins when we are young and that nearly 90 percent of Caucasians are vulnerable. The risk gene to blame is called clusterin (CLU) and it begins to damage […]
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