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Association study of MICA and MICB in Alzheimer's disease.
Tissue antigens - 1 Sept 2009
Quiroga I, Lehmann D J, Barnardo M C N M, Fuggle S, Cortina-Borja M, Warden D R, Smith A D
Abstract excerpt
Following the replication of the association of the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) allele, HLA-B*07, with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the cohort of the Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA) in a previous study, we examined whether that association could be due to linkage disequilibrium with MICA or MICB alleles. We found a possible association of MICA*00801 heterozygotes with AD in subjects...
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