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Apolipoprotein E gene and Alzheimer's disease: is tau the link?
Biochemical Society symposium - 1 Jan 2001
Lovestone S, Anderton B, Betts J, Dayanandan R, Gibb G, Ljungberg C, Pearce J
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The finding that APOE (the gene encoding apolipoprotein E) polymorphic variation was associated with an altered risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) was a significant advance and immediately prompted a search for the mechanisms responsible for this alteration. Some 6 years later, a number of different hypotheses remain that might account for this influence on pathogenesis with no single mechanism being...
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