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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nilima Marshall

Blood markers ‘may reveal rare form of Alzheimer’s 10 years before symptoms’

PA Wire

Scientists have discovered blood markers that could help identify people with a rare, inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease a decade before symptoms begin to appear.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found that a protein called GFAP can appear in blood samples of people who are in the very early stages of the neurodegenerative disease.

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