Milestone Review: The History of Molecular Genetics Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease.

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Alzheimer research has been driven by genetic findings: from the 1990s until about 2005, by the identification of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin (PSEN) mutations, leading to the formulation of the amyloid hypothesis, and then from ~2007 by genome-wide studies which have led to the increasing appreciation of the importance of microglial insufficiency in the disease pathogenesis. These genome...

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