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Alzheimer's disease risk genes and the age-at-onset phenotype.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Nov 2013
Thambisetty Madhav, An Yang, Tanaka Toshiko
Abstract excerpt
Despite the recent identification of several novel risk genes for Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known about their influence on the age at onset (AAO) of AD. The AAO is a phenotype with a heritable component distinct from disease risk and may be a useful trait to study in the context of developing interventions for delaying the onset of AD. We studied the influence of 10 recently identified AD risk genes and...
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