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Early-onset Alzheimer's disease caused by mutations at codon 717 of the beta-amyloid precursor protein gene.
Nature - 31 Oct 1991
Chartier-Harlin M C, Crawford F, Houlden H, Warren A, Hughes D, Fidani L, Goate A, Rossor M, Roques P, Hardy J
Abstract excerpt
A mutation at codon 717 of the beta-amyloid precursor protein gene has been found to cosegregate with familial Alzheimer's disease in a single family. This mutation has been reported in a further five out of approximately 100 families multiply affected by Alzheimer's disease. We have identified another family, F19, in which we have detected linkage between the beta-amyloid precursor protein gene and Alzheimer's...
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