Tgen, Northwestern University Study of ‘SuperAgers’ Offers Genetic Clues to Their Cognitive Performance

May 29, 2018 | News

Tgen, Northwestern University Study of ‘SuperAgers’ Offers Genetic Clues to Their Cognitive Performance

Now, a study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine suggests that having resilient memory performance during aging could be inherited, and that a particular gene might be associated with SuperAgers.

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