apoe2, while protective on its own, doesn't cancel out apoe4

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apoe2, while protective on its own, doesn't cancel out apoe4

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New article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18198-x

Interesting....apoe2/4 had outcomes similar to apoe4/4, i.e. the 2, while protective on its own, can't cancel out the 4.
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Fiver wrote:New article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18198-x

Interesting....apoe2/4 had outcomes similar to apoe4/4, i.e. the 2, while protective on its own, can't cancel out the 4.
Thank you for sharing. I'm so glad someone finally did some research on this.
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Fiver wrote:New article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18198-x

Interesting....apoe2/4 had outcomes similar to apoe4/4, i.e. the 2, while protective on its own, can't cancel out the 4.
Interesting the 2/3 was better than 3/3, but 2/4 & 3/4 were nearly the same.
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