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Systematic identification of risk factors for Alzheimer's disease through shared genetic architecture and electronic medical records.
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing - 1 Jan 2013
Li Li, Ruau David, Chen Rong, Weber Susan, Butte Atul J
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the leading causes of death for older people in US with rapidly increasing incidence. AD irreversibly and progressively damages the brain, but there are treatments in clinical trials to potentially slow the development of AD. We hypothesize that the presence of clinical traits, sharing common genetic variants with AD, could be used as a non-invasive means to predict AD or...
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