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Specific BACE1 genotypes provide additional risk for late-onset Alzheimer disease in APOE epsilon 4 carriers.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 15 May 2003
Gold Gabriel, Blouin Jean-Louis, Herrmann François R, Michon Agnès, Mulligan Reinhild, Duriaux Saïl Geneviève, Bouras Constantin, Giannakopoulos Panteleimon, Antonarakis Stylianos E
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized neuropathologically by neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques. A key component of plaques is A beta, a polypeptide derived from A beta-precursor protein (APP) through proteolytic cleavage catalyzed by beta and gamma-secretase. We hypothesized that sequence variation in genes BACE1 (on chromosome 11q23.3) and BACE2 (on chromosome 21q22.3), which encode two closely...
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