My story: the discovery and mapping to chromosome 21 of the Alzheimer amyloid gene.
When I decided to clone the amyloid gene I did not know that there were some twenty groups around the research world that desperately tried to do the same. If I knew that I would have never started the project. I was so ignorant about the disease that I did not know how to spell the name Alzheimer. I had to look at the papers of other researchers to make sure that I my spelling was correct. After the cloning, I was invited to numerous national and international meetings on AD. These meetings became my University where I majored in AD.
Goldgaber
Dmitry
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY 11794-8101, USA. dmitry.goldgaber@sunysb.edu
D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D000682:Amyloid / Q000235:genetics*; D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides / Q000235:genetics; D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / Q000378:metabolism; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D002891:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21 / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000378:metabolism; D016874:Neurofibrillary Tangles / Q000378:metabolism
D000682:Amyloid; D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides; D016564:Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor; D007375:Interleukin-1