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Strategies for dissecting genetic-environmental interactions in neurodegenerative disorders.
Neurotoxicology - 1 Sept 2006
Schmechel Donald E, Browndyke Jeffrey, Ghio Andrew
Abstract excerpt
Complex genetic and environmental interactions contribute to abnormal aging and neurodegenerative disorders. We present information from a series of 1136 consecutive patients presenting with cognitive disorders and show possible significant contribution of toxic environmental and occupational exposures to pathological aging (21% of patients) and interactions of these exposures with common polymorphisms that...
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