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Early-onset alopecia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a cohort study.
American journal of epidemiology - 1 Oct 2013
Fondell Elinor, Fitzgerald Kathryn C, Falcone Guido J, O'Reilly Eilis J, Ascherio Alberto
Abstract excerpt
A recent meta-analysis of 7 genome-wide association studies on early balding (alopecia) revealed single nucleotide polymorphism variants in the region of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) gene TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TARDBP/TDP-43). We therefore explored the association of early-onset alopecia and ALS in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, a large cohort of 51,529 US men. In 1992, the participants...
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