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Preliminary demonstration of an allelic association of the IREB2 gene with Alzheimer's disease.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 1 Aug 2006
Coon Keith D, Siegel Andrew M, Yee Stephanie J, Dunckley Travis L, Mueller Claudius, Nagra Rashed M, Tourtellotte Wallace W, Reiman Eric M, Papassotiropoulos Andreas, Petersen Floyd F, Stephan Dietrich A, Kirsch Wolff M
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The role of iron metabolism in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is well documented. Regulation of the proteins that maintain cellular iron metabolism is mediated by two cytoplasmic RNA-binding proteins, the Iron Regulatory Proteins (IRP1 and IRP2), that function through post-transcriptional interactions with RNA stem loop structures called iron-responsive elements. As the primary mediator of iron homeostasis in neuronal...
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