The Recruitment and Retention for Alzheimer’s Disease Diversity Cohorts in the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (READ-ADSP) aims to recruit 400 participants, comprising 200 cases of dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairments, frontotemporal dementia, and Parkinson’s disease).
Why now: Recruiting individuals for Alzheimer’s disease genetic studies in Sub-Saharan Africa is challenging, especially for those with low socioeconomic status and living in rural areas, due to cultural stigma.
Expected outcome: This project aims to enhance Alzheimer’s disease genetic studies in underrepresented African ancestry and Hispanic/Latinx populations
Funding: National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Research lead: Professor David Ndetei, Dr Victoria Mutiso, and Professor Raj Kalaria.
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