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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphisms and Alzheimer's disease.
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) - 1 May 2005
Matsushita S, Arai H, Matsui T, Yuzuriha T, Urakami K, Masaki T, Higuchi S
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Several lines of evidence have made brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) an important candidate gene conferring risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recently, three studies reported an association between two single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP)--i.e., C270T and G196A--in the BDNF gene and AD....
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