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From 1997 to 2007: a decade journey through the H1 haplotype on 17q21 chromosome.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 Jan 2009
Kalinderi Kallirhoe, Fidani Liana, Bostantjopoulou Sevasti
Abstract excerpt
The H1 haplotype was first identified 10 years ago. Initially, a dinucleotide polymorphism was detected in the tau (MAPT) gene and was subsequently found to be in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with other polymorphisms, forming the MAPT H1 haplotype, a risk factor for many neurological diseases, considered as tauopathies. Genetic and histopathologic data are in agreement that MAPT and its encoded protein have a...
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