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Association of estrogen receptor alpha gene with Alzheimer's disease: a case-control study.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 1 Aug 2006
Monastero Roberto, Cefalù Angelo B, Camarda Cecilia, Noto Davide, Camarda Lawrence K, Caldarella Rosalia, Imbornone Emilia, Averna Maurizio R, Camarda Rosolino
Abstract excerpt
Recent experimental data have offered the biological background to study the estrogen receptor (ER) alpha gene as a candidate gene for AD. Genetic association studies proposed ERalpha PvuII and XbaI gene polymorphisms as susceptibility factors for AD, although subsequent studies did not replicate this finding. To verify this association in a Caucasian Italian sample, we conducted a case-control study in a dataset...
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