A healthy 27-year-old woman had her world turned upside down after being told she will almost certainly develop a form of dementia that strikes early.Alyssa Nash discovered that she possesses a gene mutation that will almost certainly sentence her to the same fate as he father, who ‘changed completely into someone else’ in his 30s seven years before being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).The Iowa server was quick to undergo a battery of relatively new and highly specific blood tests to determine her genetic risk, as she had a 50 percent chance of carrying the gene and therefore a considerable 10 to 15 percent chance of being diagnosed.
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