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LRRK2 variant associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Nov 2011
Zhao Yi, Ho P, Yih Yuen, Chen C, Lee W L, Tan E K
Abstract excerpt
Overlapping neurodegenerative pathologies (including Alzheimer's disease, AD) have been described in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with leucine-rich repeat kinase-2 (LRRK2) mutations. We analyzed a LRRK2 PD (R1628P) risk variant in a group of 885 subjects comprising of AD and controls. The frequency of the R1628P allele was higher in AD compared to controls (3.5% vs. 1.6%, OR 2.3, 95 CI 1.2-4.4, p=0.018). In...
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