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Many cases of dementia may arise from non-inherited DNA ‘spelling mistakes’

October 15, 2018 by

Only a small proportion of cases of dementia are thought to be inherited -- the cause of the vast majority is unknown. Now a team of scientists believe they may have found an explanation: spontaneous errors in our DNA that arise as cells divide and reproduce.

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