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Risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease associated with BDNF C270T polymorphism.
Neuroscience letters - 24 Jun 2005
Olin Diane, MacMurray James, Comings David E
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We examined the frequency of the T allele of the C270T polymorphism of the brain-derived nerve growth factor (BDNF) gene in a test and replication test design. Our objective was to determine if there is an association between the BDNF gene and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in a US population. There were 106 autopsy-proven AD cases and 101 controls of similar ages in each test for a total of 212 AD cases and 202...
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