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Is there an association of regulatory region polymorphism in the alpha-1-antichymotrypsin gene with sporadic Alzheimer's disease in the northern Han-Chinese population?
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia - 1 Jun 2010
Yu Guran, Jia Jianping
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Both invitro and invivo alpha-1-antichymotrypsin (ACT) directly inhibits amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) degradation and promotes Abeta deposition. However, whether the genetic variants in the regulatory region (including the promoter and the two enhancers) of the ACT gene affect susceptibility to A...
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