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Common genetic variants drive far more Alzheimer’s risk than earlier estimates suggested

PsyPost · 2026-11-15
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A Nature study of more than 2.8 million people linked 127 DNA regions to Alzheimer’s, including 48 newly found loci. Common inherited variants account for nearly three times the population variation in risk that prior estimates suggested, with ties to higher gene activity in brain immune cells and lower activity in nerve cells.

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