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1 online resource (327 pages) |
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Prologue; The Life and Death of Hannah; Gregor Mendel; Alois Alzheimer; The Descendants of Hannah and Shlomo; Mendel's Heirs; Alzheimer's Disease at Midcentury; Enter Genetics; New Seeds Are Sown; No Longer Alone; Twin Pillars of Hope; A Transmissible Virus?; Base Camp, Circa 1980; The New Basis for Linkage Maps of the Human Genome; The Quest for the Huntington's Disease Gene; Charles; Peter St. George-Hyslop and the Link to Chromosome 21; A Gene for Amyloid; A Siege of the Soul; Elizabeth W. and the Second Family from Bobruisk; A Unity of Heart and Mind; Russia Once Again |
| Summary |
The internationally acclaimed story of Hannah's Heirs now resumes in this updated paperback edition with the discovery in June, 1995 of Hannah's gene--now known to account for the majority of mutations causing early onset familial Alzheimer's disease--and the equally important identification of the major genetic risk factor rendering increased susceptibility to the more frequently occurring late-onset Alzheimer's. With these recent discoveries, medical science is now poised to reach for an understanding of the causes of the various forms of Alzheimer's disease which, in turn, will inevitably l |
| Analysis |
Alzheimer's disease - Genetic aspects - Case studies |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Alzheimer's disease -- Genetic aspects -- Case studies
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Alzheimer's disease -- Popular works
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Alzheimer's disease -- Pathogenesis
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Alzheimer's disease
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Alzheimer's disease -- Genetic aspects
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Alzheimer's disease -- Pathogenesis
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Case studies
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Popular works
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198023265 |
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019802326X |
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9781602561335 |
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1602561338 |
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1280452846 |
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9781280452840 |
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