The central idea of the passage is that Alzheimer's is studied in the Human Genome project that has helped scientists identify more than 1,400 disease genes.
What did the human genome project reveal?The Human Genome Project demonstrated that production-oriented, discovery-driven scientific inquiry, which did not involve the investigation of a specific hypothesis or the direct answering of preformed questions, could be remarkably valuable and beneficial to the broader scientific community.
With this information, we can conclude that Alzheimer's disease is the progressive loss of mental function, characterized by the degeneration of brain tissue.
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