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Protective effect of the APOE-e3 allele in Alzheimer's disease.
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas - 1 Jan 2012
de-Almada B V P, de-Almeida L D, Camporez D, de-Moraes M V D, Morelato R L, Perrone A M S, Belcavello L, Louro I D, de-Paula F
Abstract excerpt
Although several alleles of susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been studied in the last decades, few polymorphisms have been considered as risk factors for the disease. Among them, the APOE-e4 allele appears to be the major genetic risk factor for the onset of the disease. However, it is important to confirm the potential susceptibility of these genetic variants in different populations in order to...
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