News : 2019
UM Leads Largest-Ever Alzheimer’s Gene Study, Achieves Landmark Breakthroughs
Collaboration — that’s what allowed an international team of researchers to analyze information from an extraordinarily large number of people — more than 94,000 individuals — and arrive at some striking revelations about the underlying causes of Alzheimer’s disease, including five new genes that increase risk for the disease. The meta-analysis combines and reevaluates data collected by four consortia.