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Sequence variants of toll like receptor 4 and late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Chen Yen-Ching, Yip Ping-Keung, Huang Yi-Ling, Sun Yu, Wen Li-Li, Chu Yi-Min, Chen Ta-Fu
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BACKGROUND: Toll like receptor 4 (TLR4) has been related to inflammation and beta-amyloid deposition in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain. No study has explored the association between haplotype-tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (htSNPs) of TLR4 and AD risk previously and ApoE e4 status alone showed low sensitivity in identifying late-onset AD (LOAD) patients. METHODS: A total of 269 LOAD patients were...
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