To identify ways of slowing or stopping Alzheimer's
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More than five-million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. Now, researchers across the globe hope mapping all genes relating to the disease will help cure it and what could be medicine's next big thing.
These days, James and Birdie Brown enjoy watching TV together. But college is where their story began. The night James proposed, he went over to Birdie's dorm window. "We talked and talked and talked, and I asked her to marry me. She said, 'are you crazy?' I said I couldn't answer that. I don't know if you tell the truth or not," James brown, told Ivanhoe.
The two married and had five children, all of them doctors. "I'm a happy mother," Birdie Brown said. But that didn't save Birdie from Alzheimer's disease. "I wouldn't accept it. You don't want to believe that this is going down," James Brown said.
When James had a stroke two years ago, the couple moved into an assisted living center. The Brown's are one of 35 million families living with Alzheimer's worldwide. A new, international initiative could help unravel the disease's mysteries.
"It's been a long time coming," Jonathan Haines, Ph.D., a director at Vanderbilt University's Center for Human Genetics Research, said. Dr. Haines is part of the global team that will map all the genes involved in Alzheimer's. "What it allows us to do is to get to the end point of understanding what genes are involved and start the process of understanding why these genes are involved," Dr. Haines said. Continue to read: abclocal.go.com
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