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Estrogen receptor gene polymorphisms in patients with Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and alcohol-associated dementia.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2000
Ji Y, Urakami K, Wada-Isoe K, Adachi Y, Nakashima K
Abstract excerpt
The association between the estrogen receptor (ER-alpha) gene and dementia was examined in 223 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 66 with vascular dementia (VD), 17 with alcohol-associated dementia (ALD) and 134 healthy elderly control subjects. The PvuII and XbaI restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the ER-alpha gene were represented as Pp (PvuII) and Xx (XbaI), with capital letters signifying the...
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