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A polymorphism in the complement component C1r is not associated with sporadic Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience letters - 16 Jan 2003
Rosenmann Hanna, Meiner Zeev, Kahana Esther, Aladjem Zoja, Friedman Gideon, Ben-Yehuda Arie, Grenader Tal, Wertman Eli, Abramsky Oded
Abstract excerpt
A growing body of evidence suggests that Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with local inflammation processes. Complement activation is one of the cardinal pathological features of the inflammation. Intensive AD association studies investigating polymorphisms in inflammatory-related genes have been recently performed, mainly in cytokines, but much less has been focused on AD association with polymorphisms in...
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