{"id":8670,"date":"2014-02-26T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/twin-pathologies\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:16:12","slug":"twin-pathologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/twin-pathologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Pathologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n  \n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n    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What&rsquo;s happening in the brain often varies widely from patient to patient, and a trigger for one person may be harmless in another.<\/p>\n<p>In a unique study, an international team of researchers led by USC Dornsife psychologist Margaret Gatz compared the brains of twins where one or both died of Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease. They found that many of the twin pairs not only had similar progressions of Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease and dementia prior to death, but they also had similar combinations of pathologies &mdash; two or more unconnected areas of damage to the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is part of Gatz&rsquo;s landmark body of work on aging and cognition with the Swedish Twin Registry, a large cohort study of more than 14,000 Swedish twins, now over the age of 65. Across nearly 30 years, Gatz&rsquo;s work with twins &mdash; including genetically identical pairs &mdash; has shifted the study of Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease to include the entire lifespan, including the effects of developmental exposure, periodontal disease, mental health, obesity and diabetes on later-life Alzheimer&rsquo;s risk.<\/p>\n<p>The current paper provides more evidence that there may not be a single smoking-gun cause of Alzheimer&rsquo;s, but rather a range of potential causes to which we may be susceptible largely depending on our genetics. The study appears in the current issue of the journal <em>Brain Pathology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We try to make inferences based on tests and diagnoses, but we have to assume that what we&rsquo;re seeing is a manifestation of what&rsquo;s going on in these twins&rsquo; brains,&rdquo; said Gatz, professor of psychology, gerontology and preventive medicine. &ldquo;For this reason, we wanted to compare the brains of twins to ask whether identical twins&rsquo; brains are actually more identical.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-bottom: 5px; width: 350px; padding-top: 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Twins2-1643.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<h5>Margaret Gatz, professor of psychology, gerontology and preventive medicine at USC Dornsife, leads the Swedish twin study of more than 14,000 twins, now over the age of 65. Across nearly 30 years, she and her team are gaining insights into Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>The researchers had the rare opportunity to directly autopsy the brains of seven pairs of twins who both died after being receiving diagnostic evaluations over many years, including a pair of identical twins who were both diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s and died within a year of one another at the age of 98.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There may be risk factors that start to accumulate but don&rsquo;t lead to a clinical diagnosis,&rdquo; explained lead author Diego Iacono of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the Biomedical Research Institute. &ldquo;We found that the presence of Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease doesn&rsquo;t preclude the presence of other damage. Looking at co-pathologies in twin pairs may present new areas for research aside from the typical factors.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For example, while there&rsquo;s wide consensus among experts about the course of Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease and the presence of amyloid plaques and tangles in the brain, what starts the process going is less clear, including the role of lesions, Lewy bodies and vascular or ventricle damage, more often associated with specific types of dementia such as Parkinson&rsquo;s disease.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Identical twins tended to have similar combinations of pathologies. We looked not just at the hallmark indicators of Alzheimer&rsquo;s, but at all the other damage in the brain. Across the whole array of neuropathological changes, the identical twins appeared to have more similar pathologies,&rdquo; Gatz said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is fascinating: it&rsquo;s not just a key pathology related to the twins&rsquo; diagnoses but the combination of things happening in their brains. We&rsquo;re going to keep looking for what these combinations are.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The research was funded by the NIH grants R01 AG08724, AG04563, AG10175 AND AG08861.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After death, twin brains afflicted with Alzheimer\u2019s show similar patterns of neuropathologic changes, according to a new study led by USC Dornsife psychologist Margaret Gatz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[614,257,96,112],"class_list":["post-8670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","tag-aging","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-natural-sciences","tag-psychology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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