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Genetic geroscience and Alzheimer's disease: The pleiotropy is the point!
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 1 Apr 2025
Shardell Michelle, Chen Chixiang
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Geroscience aims to understand how the biology of aging serves as a shared contributor to multiple age-related health conditions. Genetic variants that influence multiple traits are said to exert pleiotropic effects. The study by Pan and colleagues applied a modern statistical model to identify genetic variants with potentially pleiotropic effects by assessing their joint association with Alzheimer's disease and...
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