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Association of alpha 2-macroglobulin polymorphisms and Alzheimer disease in Mainland Han Chinese.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Jan 2004
Chen Deng, Zhang Jun-Wu, Zhang Zhen-Xin, Wu Ya-Ning, Qu Qiu-Ming
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This study used case-control method to investigate roles of two alpha 2-macroglobulin (A2M) polymorphisms, a 5-bp insertion/deletion (A2M-I/D) and an A-->G substitution (A2M-A/G), in the development of sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) in Mainland Han Chinese. Our results showed a trend of lower D-carrying genotype frequency in APOE-epsilon 4 carrying AD patients than in corresponding control subjects (chi(2)=3.67,...
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