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Scientists Decode Function of Gene Associated With Alzheimer’s Disease

Scientists identify the possible mechanism by which the APOE4 gene variant increases risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Brain cells of AD patients with APOE4 variant found to contain ...
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deCODE Genetics: Loss of Function Variant in FLT3 Strongly Increases the Risk of Autoimmune Thyroid Disease and Other Autoimmune Diseases

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, and their collaborators from the Icelandic healthcare system, University of Iceland and the ...
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deCODE genetics: Rare loss-of-function variants in HECTD2 and AKAP11 confer a risk of bipolar disorder

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, reveal today in Nature Genetics associations between rare loss-of-function variants in two genes and bipolar disorder. REYKJAVIK, Iceland, March ...
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deCODE Genetics: Loss of Function Variant in FLT3 Strongly Increases the Risk of Autoimmune Thyroid Disease and Other Autoimmune Diseases

One of the newly discovered sequence variants is in a gene that codes for the FLT3 receptor (fms-related tyrosine kinase 3) on blood cells and immune cells, and is of large interest for several ...