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Identification and confirmation of an exonic splicing enhancer variation in exon 5 of the Alzheimer disease associated PICALM gene.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Nov 2012
Schnetz-Boutaud Nathalie C, Hoffman Joshua, Coe Jared E, Murdock Deborah G, Pericak-Vance Margaret A, Haines Jonathan L
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by memory and cognitive impairment and is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly. A number of genome wide association studies and subsequent replication studies have been published recently on late onset AD (LOAD). These studies identified several new susceptibility genes including phosphatidylinositol-binding clathrin...
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