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Alzheimer’s disease genetics converges on microglial and neuronal dysregulation


A multi-ancestry study of Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and potential drug targets, implicates microglia and neurons, and reveals a larger common-variant contribution than previously estimated.

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