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Association of APOE with age at onset of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Oct 2008
Zetterberg Henrik, Jacobsson Johan, Rosengren Lars, Blennow Kaj, Andersen Peter M
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative syndrome with familial and sporadic forms. We conducted a study including 60 sporadic and 19 familial ALS patients, 206 reference patients with other neurological disorders and 1265 neurologically healthy controls to assess the Alzheimer-associated apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 gene variant as a possible risk factor for ALS. While no major influence of...
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