An interesting new presentation by Eric Verdin, talking about the work of Lee Hood and Nathan Price who have partnered with the Buck Institute now:
what I’m showing you on the right is what happens if you Hispanic versus black versus white versus Japanese it turns out if you are a Japanese and you’re E4 E4, you’re 35% likely to get Alzheimer’s but if you’re Hispanic you’re only 2% so this is really a good example of um of sort of multigenic type effect that we can we should be able to measure and so this is an extreme examples there are.
Full video here:
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For those who didn’t watch the video, and are over 55, this may be of interest:
TIME study
The following is at 27 minutes into the presentation.
I sent off an email to the address listed at the bottom. They put me on a contact list and will start recruiting in April.
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