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Genetic association between clusterin polymorphisms and Alzheimer's disease in a Japanese population.
Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society - 1 Mar 2011
Komatsu Miwa, Shibata Nobuto, Kuerban Bolati, Ohnuma Tohru, Baba Hajime, Arai Heii
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Previous papers have reported that clusterin (CLU, also called apolipoprotein J) maintains amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) solubility and protects against Aβ neurotoxicity. Recently, two large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified that a specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) on the gene has been reported to modify the risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The present study aimed to investigate...
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