“Dementia genetics: From common variants to rare populations”

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Dr. Guerreiro is an Associate Professor at Van Andel Institute Center for Neurodegenerative Science since 2018. In her lab, Dr. Guerreiro investigates the genetic contributors to both common and rare/familial forms of Alzheimer Disease and Parkinson Disease. Dr. Guerreiro and her team were pioneers in the identification of TREM2 as the cause of a frontotemporal dementia-like phenotype in a group of Turkish families. This finding opened the door to the identification of TREM2 variants as very significant genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s.

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