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Identification of Alzheimer disease-associated variants in genes that regulate retromer function.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Sept 2012
Vardarajan Badri N, Bruesegem Sophia Y, Harbour Michael E, Inzelberg Rivka, Friedland Robert, St George-Hyslop Peter, Seaman Matthew N J, Farrer Lindsay A
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The proteolytic processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) to generate the neurotoxic amyloid β (Aβ) peptide is central to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD). The endocytic system mediates the processing of APP by controlling its access to secretases that cleave APP. A key mediator of...
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