Lack of association between two restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the genes for the light and heavy neurofilament proteins and Alzheimer's disease.

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The etiology of Alzheimer disease (AD) remains unknown. The hypothesis of genetic factors playing a role in the causation of the disease, at least in its familial form, has been borne out by results showing linkage in several early-onset AD families to a locus on the proximal part of the long arm of chromosome 21. Linkage was not detected in several other families using the same markers. The metabolism of...

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