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AAIC 2025 Abstract

Resilience to Alzheimer's disease in individuals with Down syndrome

By Lisi Flores Aguilar, Sierra T. Wright, Jillian V. Berry, Show 21 more authorsElizabeth Head
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Paper

Abstract

Background: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) are at increased genetic risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). By the age of 40 years, most individuals with DS exhibit AD neuropathology, and dementia in their early 50s.

The paper

Lisi Flores Aguilar, Sierra T. Wright, Jillian V. Berry, Show 21 more authorsElizabeth Head

University of California, Irvine

AAIC 2025 Abstract, 23 Dec 2025, CC BY

Presented at AAIC 2025

doi.org/10.1002/alz70855_099390

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