In their new report in Nature Genetics, the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP) stated the new 11 risk factors namely PICALM, CLU, CR1, BIN1, MS4A, CD2AP, EPHA1, ABCA7, SORL1 and TREM2 for Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease, which is more common among aged people.
In another study, scientist of Rutgers University stated that A-T disease, a rare child hood disease, which makes excess production of protein in the brain cells can also cause neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
These findings still to be validated in a clinical setting. Rutgers University together with A-T Clinical Center at Johns Hopkins University, trying to create human neurons like those in A-T patients and study the mechanisms of disease in more detail.
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