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The GAB2 gene and the risk of Alzheimer's disease: replication and meta-analysis.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Jun 2009
Ikram M Arfan, Liu Fan, Oostra Ben A, Hofman Albert, van Duijn Cornelia M, Breteler Monique M B
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BACKGROUND: Recently, GAB2 has been suggested to modify the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) among APOEepsilon4 carriers. However, replication data are inconsistent. METHODS: In a population-based cohort study (n = 5507; age > 55) with 443 incident AD cases, we investigated the association between rs4945261 and AD. Because we used high-density genotyping, we also investigated other polymorphisms within...
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