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Genetic association between SORL1 polymorphisms and Alzheimer's disease in a Japanese population.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2008
Shibata Nobuto, Ohnuma Tohru, Baba Hajime, Higashi Shinji, Nishioka Kenya, Arai Heii
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: It has recently been shown that the neuronal sortilin-related receptor (SORL1) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS: To investigate whether variations around the SORL1 gene are associated with AD, 7 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped using TaqMan technology with 180 AD patients and 130 age-matched controls. RESULTS: Our results...
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