In 1977 an Illinois woman named Linda Greicius made a trip to Phoenix,
Arizona, to spend time with her mother, who had recently been widowed.
When they got back to Arizona, Shankwitz, Stahl, and Greicius decided to start a fund to help other
terminally ill kids realize their dreams, just as Chris had.
Greicius plans to investigate APOE4 in humans, looking
for variants on other genes that interact with APOE4 differently by gender, and asking whether declining estrogen in menopause might increase the risk in women.