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The impact of apolipoprotein E genotypes on age at onset of symptoms and phenotypic expression in Wilson's disease.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Mar 2000
Schiefermeier M, Kollegger H, Madl C, Polli C, Oder W, Kühn H, Berr F, Ferenci P
Abstract excerpt
Wilson's disease is a disorder of biliary copper excretion that may result in severe neurological symptoms and advanced liver disease. The wide variation of phenotypic disease expression cannot be fully explained by the different mutations of the Wilson disease gene. In neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, temporal lobe epilepsy and cerebral trauma, the presence of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE)...
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