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APOE genotypes and disease severity in multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England) - 1 Apr 2002
Masterman T, Zhang Z, Hellgren D, Salter H, Anvret M, Lilius L, Lannfelt L, Hillert J
Abstract excerpt
Apolipoprotein E (opoE) is involved in the transport of lipids necessary for membrane repair and is encoded by a gene on chromosome 19q13, a region positive for linkage in two multiple sclerosis (MS) genome-wide screens. The APOE epsilon4 allele confers susceptibility to both familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD). Carriage of epsilon4 is associated with defective dendritic remodeling in AD, and with...
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