Why Women with Alzheimer’s Live Longer and Do Better Than Men with the Disease
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
UCSF scientists found that having an additional copy of the sex chromosome gives women two “doses” of a gene found only on that chromosome. To further confirm these results, the scientists deleted the second X in female Alzheimer’s mice, which led them to be more cognitively impaired like males and die faster. The Active Gene.
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