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Evidence for a novel late-onset Alzheimer disease locus on chromosome 19p13.2.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 2004
Wijsman Ellen M, Daw E Warwick, Yu Change-En, Payami Haydeh, Steinbart Ellen J, Nochlin David, Conlon Erin M, Bird Thomas D, Schellenberg Gerard D
Abstract excerpt
Late-onset familial Alzheimer disease (LOFAD) is a genetically heterogeneous and complex disease for which only one locus, APOE, has been definitively identified. Difficulties in identifying additional loci are likely to stem from inadequate linkage analysis methods. Nonparametric methods suffer from low power because of limited use of the data, and traditional parametric methods suffer from limitations in the...
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