Carol’s story: there’s something in the family
Watch Carol describe the journey from her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis to the discovery of a gene linked with fAD. We also hear from two of the scientists and doctors at the heart of this discovery, Professors John Hardy and Martin Rossor.
In the video Martin Rossor explains the different genes that cause this inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease and explains how, since they all have a common effect, it makes a clear scientific story implicating amyloid as a cause of the disease. In the years since these were discovered, further genes have been identified that don’t cause Alzheimer’s to be inherited but do increase people’s risk of developing the disease. We take a more in-depth look at these genes in the next step.
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