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ASOs: Wave of the Future in Alzheimer’s Therapeutics?


Investigational ASOs for Huntington’s disease and for ALS are in Phase 3 clinical trials. In some cases, ASOs silence the mutant allele of a gene while allowing expression of the good copy. In other cases—and this is relevant to DIAN families—an ASO simply reduces the overall expression of a gene whose protein is part of the disease process.