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by robwwilliams 487 days ago
Agree strongly with you. This statement make Alzheimer’s into a wonderfully “simple” monogenic disease like Huntington’s but all age-related disease have many complex interwoven weaker and stronger causes—-even Huntington’s disease in which the same mutation type (numbers of CAG mutations in neurons) can cause symptoms over a 20 year range.

Too bad that headlines are inherently short and sometimes misleading. Simple sells.