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Identification and characterization of OGG1 mutations in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2007
Mao Guogen, Pan Xiaoyu, Zhu Bei-Bei, Zhang Yanbin, Yuan Fenghua, Huang Jian, Lovell Mark A, Lee Maxwell P, Markesbery William R, Li Guo-Min, Gu Liya
Abstract excerpt
Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) exhibit higher levels of 8-oxo-guanine (8-oxoG) DNA lesions in their brain, suggesting a reduced or defective 8-oxoG repair. To test this hypothesis, this study investigated 14 AD patients and 10 age-matched controls for mutations of the major 8-oxoG removal gene OGG1. Whereas no alterations were detected in any control samples, four AD patients exhibited mutations in OGG1,...
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