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Epigenetic Immune Signatures in Alzheimer’s: Implications for Diagnosis and Therapy

Author
ReachMD
Published
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://reachmd.com/programs/neurofrontiers/epigenetic-immune-signatures-in-alzheimers-implications-for-diagnosis-and-therapy/36464/

Guest: David Gate, PhD


Patients with Alzheimer's disease—especially APOE4 carriers—show distinct epigenetic immune alterations that may influence disease progression, treatment response, and side effect risk. In this episode, Dr. David Gate, an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neurology at Northwestern University, dives into his research on this subject and explains how chromatin accessibility in proinflammatory genes and T-cell receptor changes link to neurological pathology.

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