Newly identified gene linked to dementia

A single alteration in the DNA sequence of a newly discovered gene may be the cause of familial British dementia, a rare form of hereditary dementia that is characterised by amyloid deposition in the brain and is considered to be closely related to Alzheimer's disease.

A team of researchers from New York University School of Medicine, New York, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Institute of Neurology, both in London, analysed tissue …