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What is Genes

Handbook of Research on Innovations in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia
They are the molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. They hold the information to build and maintain an organism's cells and pass genetic traits to offspring.
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“Personal Training”: Can Genes Guide Us?
Anthoula Tsolaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & General Hospital “Agios Pavlos”, Thessaloniki, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8234-4.ch002
Abstract
Dementia is one of the most devastating disease of the elderly. Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain its most common cause. This chapter presents current data about AD risk factors, biomarkers, risk genes, available treatments. It also focuses on current and future perspectives about the use of personalized, non pharmaceutical computer- based intervation. The aim of this work is to propose that the knowledge of carring or not AD risk can be a guide for a personalized combination of brain training in preclinical stages of the disease in order to postpone or even cancel disease onset.
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Genes: Modes of Inheritance
Units of information about specific traits on DNA.
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Evolutionary Computing Approach for Ad-Hoc Networks
Genes are building blocks of chromosomes and represent the parameters that need to be optimized.
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