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Genetic association of CR1 with Alzheimer's disease: a tentative disease mechanism.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Dec 2012
Hazrati Lili-Naz, Van Cauwenberghe Caroline, Brooks Patricia L, Brouwers Nathalie, Ghani Mahdi, Sato Christine, Cruts Marc, Sleegers Kristel, St George-Hyslop Peter, Van Broeckhoven Christine, Rogaeva Ekaterina
Abstract excerpt
CR1 is a novel Alzheimer's disease (AD) gene identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Recently, we showed that AD risk could be explained by an 18-kilobase insertion responsible for the complement component (3b/4b) receptor 1 (CR1)-S isoform. We investigated the relevance of the CR1 isoforms to AD in a Canadian dataset. Also, we genotyped rs4844610 tagging the GWAS-significant CR1 single nucleotide...
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