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ArticleBrain sciences2025

Probability and Neurodegeneration: Alzheimer's Disease and Huntington's Disease.

Peter K Panegyres

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Article in Brain sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Peter K PanegyresNeurodegenerative Disorders Research Pty Ltd., Perth, WA 6005, Australia; Tel.: +61-8-6317-9472.ORCID 0000-0002-4996-2361

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Abstract

backgroundThe mechanisms by which sporadic young-onset neurodegenerative processes develop are uncertain.

methodsWe have previously proposed that stochastic processes involving sequence changes at a DNA, RNA, or protein level in critical genes and proteins might be important to this process. Further investigation points to the contribution of probabilistic states in other factors involved in neurodegenerative conditions, such as-in the case of young onset Alzheimer's disease-head injury, apolipoprotein ε4 alleles and other elements that, by the interaction of conditional probabilities in these variables, influence the evolution of neurodegenerative conditions.

resultsThis proposal might help to explain why some autosomal dominant neurodegenerative conditions, such as trinucleotide repeat disorder (Huntington's disease), might have variable ages of onset given the same disease-causing CAG repeat mutation length.

conclusionsThe detection of somatic mutations in single brain cells provides some experimental support for these emerging concepts.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseHuntington’s diseaseprobabilistic determinationsomatic mutationsyoung-onset dementia

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