Blood marker may flag Alzheimer's-related changes in Down syndrome decades before symptoms appear

Decades earlier the archetypal symptoms of Alzheimer's illness appear, immoderate changes associated with the illness whitethorn statesman to permission a hint successful the blood. A survey by the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) has recovered that, successful radical with Down syndrome, levels of β-synuclein, a macromolecule related to synaptic function, statesman to emergence successful the 3rd decennary of life, agelong earlier symptoms look and earlier than different humor biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease.