AAIC 2025 Abstract

Evidence of recent natural selection at Alzheimer Disease risk loci and implications for precision medicine

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Abstract

Background: Many of the over 70 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that associate with late‐onset Alzheimer (LOAD) are common. LOAD risk alleles may achieve high frequency by providing beneficial effects earlier in life for other, as yet undefined, phenotypes.

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