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APOE and Alzheimer's: why we put this behind a choice

APOE is the most talked-about Alzheimer's gene, so why doesn't every report just show it?

What the science says

APOE genotype shifts lifetime Alzheimer's risk, but it is a risk factor, not a verdict: many carriers never develop the disease and many non-carriers do. It is also information you can't un-know.

What Aimosti would show you

Aimosti can read APOE from your file, but only behind an explicit, separate reveal, never by surprise, with the risk framed as a probability shift and a clear pointer to genetic counselling.

What we won't claim

We won't surface APOE without you choosing to see it, won't give it as a diagnosis or a fate, and won't reduce a complex, partly-unknowable risk to a single reassuring or alarming number.

Covered in: Clinical findings (reveal-gated). Restated from: ClinVar.