{"id":30510,"date":"2026-10-07T18:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/07\/rare-mutation-may-shield-the-brain-from-alzheimers-damage\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:21:25","slug":"rare-mutation-may-shield-the-brain-from-alzheimers-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/07\/rare-mutation-may-shield-the-brain-from-alzheimers-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Mutation May Shield the Brain From Alzheimer\u2019s Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/rare-mutation-may-shield-the-brain-from-alzheimers-damage\/\" title=\"Rare Mutation May Shield the Brain From Alzheimer\u2019s Damage\"><\/a>A rare mutation may keep a major Alzheimer\u2019s risk gene from damaging the brain\u2019s protective barrier. About one in five people carries at least one copy of APOE \u03b54, the strongest common genetic risk factor for Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Yet some carriers remain mentally sharp into their 80s. Columbia researchers previously identified a rare variant in [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare mutation may keep a major Alzheimer\u2019s risk gene from damaging the brain\u2019s protective barrier. About one in five people carries at least one copy of APOE \u03b54, the strongest common genetic risk factor for Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Yet some carriers remain mentally sharp into their 80s. Columbia researchers previously identified a rare variant in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/07\/rare-mutation-may-shield-the-brain-from-alzheimers-damage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rare Mutation May Shield the Brain From Alzheimer\u2019s Damage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}