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Apolipoprotein E Pittsburgh variant is not associated with the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease in a Spanish population.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 1 Jul 2003
Baron M, Jimenez-Escrig A, Orensanz L, Simon J, Perez-Tur J
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to assess whether the APOE(Pittsburgh) variant (APOE*4P) is associated to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a population from Madrid (Spain). APOE*4P variant is caused by an exonic mutation which results in the substitution of proline-28 for leucine-28, only present in APOE*4 alleles. A study in a US population associated this APOE variant with an increased risk for AD, about five times...
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