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Common variants in toll-like receptor 4 confer susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease in a Han Chinese population.
Current Alzheimer research - 1 May 2012
Yu Jin-Tai, Miao Dan, Cui Wei-Zhen, Ou Jiang-Rong, Tian Yan, Wu Zhong-Chen, Zhang Wei, Tan Lan
Abstract excerpt
Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) represents a reasonable functional and positional candidate gene for Alzheimer's disease (AD) as it is located within the previous identified linkage region of AD on chromosome 9q, and functionally is involved in the microglia-mediated inflammatory response, amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque formation and Aβ clearance. To test whether variants in the TLR4 gene are associated with late-onset AD...
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