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Chromosome missegregation and trisomy 21 mosaicism in Alzheimer's disease.
Neurobiology of disease - 1 Jun 1999
Geller L N, Potter H
Abstract excerpt
A connection between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Down syndrome (trisomy 21) is indicated by the fact that all Down syndrome individuals develop Alzheimer's disease neuropathology by the 4th decade of life. Previous studies have examined the frequency of aneuploidy and other chromosomal defects in cells from familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) patients, with varying results. To investigate the possibility that a...
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