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Revealing the role of glutathione S-transferase omega in age-at-onset of Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Aug 2006
Li Yi-Ju, Scott William K, Zhang Ling, Lin Ping-I, Oliveira Sofia A, Skelly Tara, Doraiswamy Maurali P, Welsh-Bohmer Kathleen A, Martin Eden R, Haines Jonathan L, Pericak-Vance Margaret A, Vance Jeffery M
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We previously reported a linkage region on chromosome 10q for age-at-onset (AAO) of Alzheimer (AD) and Parkinson (PD) diseases. Glutathione S-transferase, omega-1 (GSTO1) and the adjacent gene GSTO2, located in this linkage region, were then reported to associate with AAO of AD and PD. To examine whether GSTO1 and GSTO2 (hereafter referred to as GSTO1h) are responsible for the linkage evidence, we identified 39...
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