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Do epigenetic pathways initiate late onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD): towards a new paradigm.
Current Alzheimer research - 1 Jun 2012
Bihaqi Syed Waseem, Schumacher Axel, Maloney Bryan, Lahiri Debomoy K, Zawia Nasser H
Abstract excerpt
Late onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is a non-familial, progressive neurodegenerative disease and the most prominent form of dementia in the elderly. Accumulating evidence suggests that LOAD not only results from the combined effects of variation in a number of genes and environmental factors, but also from epigenetic abnormalities such as histone modifications or DNA methylation. In comparison to monogenic...
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