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Candidate genes showing no evidence for association or linkage with Alzheimer's disease using family-based methodologies.
Experimental gerontology - 1 Dec 2000
Bertram L, Blacker D, Crystal A, Mullin K, Keeney D, Jones J, Basu S, Yhu S, Guénette S, McInnis M, Go R, Tanzi R
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a genetically complex and heterogeneous disorder. To date, a large number of candidate genes have been associated with the disease, however none of these findings has been consistently replicated in independent datasets. In this study we report the results of family-based analyses for polymorphisms of five such candidates on chromosomes 2 (interleukin-1beta, IL-1B), 3...
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