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I just read this yesterday: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/04/11/Researchers-find-genetic-cause-for-Alzheimers-possible-method-to-reverse-it/466152345419

I just read this yesterday: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/04/11/Researchers-find-genetic-cause-for-Alzheimers-possible-method-to-reverse-it/4661523454194/ https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/04/11/Researchers-find-... I know we all see at least half a dozen of these a year, but nobody can say in advance how they'll turn out (unless it's just obviously badly designed research). This line of inquiry certainly seems to have some promise.

hprotagonist 9y ago
Always worth looking into. To my knowledge, previous studies have produced things like "these 600 genes are regulated in a particular way in patients who were diagnosed with Alzheimers", which is much less persuasive of an argument; the contribution power per gene is quite low in that case. If you can conclusively say "these n<5 genes are exactly the things that make people 50% more likely to develop a disease", you're cooking with gas.