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Familial Alzheimer's disease: genetic influences on the disease process (Review).
International journal of molecular medicine - 1 Nov 1999
Lippa C F
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) has both genetic and environmental etiologies. Genetic causes include presenilin (PS) mutations on chromosomes 1 and 14, and amyloid precursor protein (APP) mutations on chromosome 21. At least two susceptibility genes also exist. In this review phenotypic differences in AD groups are described and possible differences in the mechanism(s) by which AD mutations lead to dementia are...
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