title: Finding risk in all the right places.
abstract: In this issue of Neuron, Cruchaga et al. (2013) identify genetic variability linked to altered levels of tau protein in cerebrospinal fluid. They show that the same genetic variants can also confer risk for Alzheimer's disease.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. singleta@mail.nih.gov
authors.forename: Andrew B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Singleton