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The solved and unsolved mysteries of the genetics of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Neuromolecular medicine - 1 Jan 2002
Rogaeva Ekaterina
Abstract excerpt
Approximately half of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases that are associated with early onset appear to be transmitted as a pure genetic, autosomal dominant trait. Genetic analyses of these pedigrees have found three causal genes: betaAPP, presenilin 1 (PS1), and presenilin 2 (PS2). This review provides an update on the pathological consequences of mutations in early-onset AD genes, the phenotypic heterogeneity...
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