October 06, 2020
Alzheimer’s risk gene disrupts endocytosis, but another disease-linked gene could help
… the defect endocytosis astrocytes neurodegeneration ApoE … About 25 percent of people have the APOE4 variant of the APOE gene, which puts them at substantially greater risk for … gene called PICALM reversed the endocytosis defects. “Both APOE and PICALM are Alzheimer’s risk genes,” said Tsai, a …

