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Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez had ‘severe’ CTE brain disease

Slices from an examination of deceased football player Aaron Hernandez’s brain, provided by the Boston University CTE Center, show evidence of Stage 3 (of 4, 4 being the worst) chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. There is severe deposition of tau protein in the frontal lobes of the brain (top row). The bottom row shows microscopic deposition of tau protein in nerve cells around small blood vessels, a unique feature of CTE./PHOTO: BOSTON UNIVERSITY CTE CENTER

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The daughter of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, who killed himself in April after being acquitted in his second murder trial, sued the league and the team on Thursday after tests revealed her father had a “severe case” of the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Related: Aaron Hernandez’s CTE diagnosis heightens the NFL’s brain trauma crisis

Relatives of the 27-year-old former athlete had asked that his brain be tested for CTE after his body was found hanging in a Massachusetts prison where he was serving a life sentence for the 2013 murder of an acquaintance.

Researchers at Boston University, the leading center studying CTE, assessed Hernandez’s brain, said attorney Jose Baez, who successfully defended the athlete in a double-murder case this year.

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