Wake Forest University School of Medicine joins international genetic study of Alzheimer’s disease in people of African and Hispanic ancestry


Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity has joined an international initiative, led by the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, to build a resource that will expand Alzheimer’s disease genetic studies in 13,000 people of African ancestry and Hispanic/Latinx groups. This work will address the social determinants of health and will lead to new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s disease.

The five-year, multisite initiative includes investigator…

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