Medical Research Council Scientists Develop Refined Diagnostic Tool for Inherited Dementias

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Researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) have developed and tested a more efficient and cost effective way to diagnose early onset, genetic forms of dementia. Scientists and doctors at the MRC Prion Unit and the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Queen Square Dementia Biomedical Research Unit (BRU) have developed an integrated diagnostic tool (the 'MRC Dementia Gene Panel') which brings together for the first time all 17 genes known to play a substantial role in causing inherited forms of dementia.

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