Reduced myelination in APOE4 brain (IMAGE)

Picower Institute at MIT

Reduced myelination in APOE4 brain

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Black gold staining in postmortem human brain samples from three individuals reveals significantly less myelination in people carrying a copy of the APOE4 Alzheimer's disease risk gene.

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Tsai Laboratory/MIT Picower Institute

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