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No association between DLST gene and Alzheimer's disease or Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Jan 2000
Matsushita S, Arai H, Yuzuriha T, Kato M, Matsui T, Urakami K, Higuchi S
Abstract excerpt
Among many candidate genes for the genetically heterogeneous Alzheimer's disease (AD), only apolipoprotein E (ApoE) has been confirmed. Another candidate is the dihydrolipoyl succinyltransferase (DLST) gene, one of three components of thiamine-dependent mitochondrial alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (KGDHC), because KGDHC activity is reported reduced in AD patients. Also characterized by reduced KGDHC...
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