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Polymorphisms of cholesterol metabolism genes CYP46 and ABCA1 and the risk of sporadic Alzheimer's disease in Chinese.
Brain research - 25 May 2007
Wang Fen, Jia Jianping
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Recent studies have demonstrated that cholesterol metabolism might play an important role in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Cholesterol 24-hydroxylase (CYP46) and ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1) have both been proposed to be involved in cholesterol metabolism in the brain. The purpose of this case-control study was to determine whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) A-->G in the intron 2 of CYP46...
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