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Tau polymorphisms are not associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience letters - 21 Apr 2000
Kwon J M, Nowotny P, Shah P K, Chakraverty S, Norton J, Morris J C, Goate A M
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of a number of neurodegenerative conditions including frontotemporal dementia and progressive supranuclear palsy that are associated with abnormal tau protein aggregates in neurons. Mutations in the tau gene cause familial forms of frontotemporal dementia and alleles of the tau gene have been associated with risk for progressive supranuclear palsy. However, studies evaluating...
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