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Interleukin-1A polymorphism is not associated with late onset Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience letters - 19 Apr 2002
Fidani Liana, Goulas Antonis, Mirtsou Vassiliki, Petersen Ronald C, Tangalos Eric, Crook Richard, Hardy John
Abstract excerpt
Over the past few years, association studies have proposed a number of potential genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). With the exception of the varepsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene, whose association with the late onset type of AD (LOAD) has been confirmed, the relative significance of most of these associations is still in question. A polymorphism in the interleukin-1A gene (IL-1A2) has...
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