Decoding Darkness: The Search For The Genetic Causes Of Alzheimer's Disease

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Basic Books, Dec 27, 2001 - Science - 304 pages
Working from the intriguing hypothesis that Alzheimer's dementia is the result of a renegade protein-beta amyloid-Tanzi and others set out to find the gene responsible for its production. Decoding Dar
 

Contents

Cleave Zap Blot Probe
1
2
18
The Core of the Matter
23
1
50
Candidate Chromosome
53
DNA to RNA to protein
65
Gone Fishing
69
The human cortex and its four lobes
72
From Famine to Feast
109
Mutations Revelations
115
2222
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2
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Of Mice and People
141
Gene Prix
167
The 42 Nidus
173
Untangling a Cascade
191

Amyloid genes approximate location in relation
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Curious Gene
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3
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1
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12
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Epilogue
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Rudolph E. Tanzi is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Genetics and Aging Unit. Science journalist Ann B. Parson is co-author, with Isaac Schiff, M.D., of Menopause, and until recently taught in Boston University's graduate program in science and journalism. Rudolph E. Tanzi is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Genetics and Aging Unit. Science journalist Ann B. Parson is co-author, with Isaac Schiff, M.D., of Menopause, and until recently taught in Boston University's graduate program in science and journalism.

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