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Early onset familial Alzheimer's disease: Mutation frequency in 31 families.
Neurology - 28 Jan 2003
Janssen J C, Beck J A, Campbell T A, Dickinson A, Fox N C, Harvey R J, Houlden H, Rossor M N, Collinge J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Three causative genes have been identified for autosomal dominant AD. OBJECTIVE: To determine the proportion of patients with early onset AD with a positive family history accounted for by mutations in these genes. METHODS: A mutational analysis of the amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PSEN1), and presenilin 2 (PSEN2) genes was performed in 31 probands with probable or definite AD from UK...
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