1. Gene Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease
... simple task as there is no one test that give a definitive result to the presence of the disease. Cognitive tests are done to differentiate Alzheimer's from dementia by asking questions such as "what is your age?" and diagnosed according by scoring the questions. A score of 26 and below indicates the presence of Alzheimer's disease (Hodkinson 2012). However, there also genetic testing with ... heterogeneous referral series of APP and PRNP. This method included Exonic Real-Time quantitative PCR, Fluorescent microsatellite PCR and Illumina array. In the Exonic RT-PCR, alleles were quantifi...
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