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Genetic evidence for the involvement of lipid metabolism in Alzheimer's disease.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Aug 2010
Jones Lesley, Harold Denise, Williams Julie
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly and presents a great burden to sufferers and to society. The genetics of rare Mendelian forms of AD have been central to our understanding of AD pathogenesis for the past twenty years and now the genetics of the common form of the disease in the elderly is beginning to be unravelled by genome-wide association studies. Four new genes for...
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