Computing the Pathogenicity of Alzheimer’s Disease Presenilin 1 Mutations

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the major global health challenges of the 21st century. More than 200 distinct mutations in presenilin 1 (PSEN1) cause severe early-onset familial AD (FAD) and are thus of central interest to the etiology of AD. PSEN1 is the catalytic subunit of γ-secretase that produces β-amyloid peptide (Aβ), and the mutations tend to increase the produced Aβ 42 /Aβ 40 ratio. The molecular...

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