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TMEM106B and APOE polymorphisms interact to confer risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease in Han Chinese.
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) - 1 Jan 2014
Lu Rui-Chun, Wang Hao, Tan Meng-Shan, Yu Jin-Tai, Tan Lan
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Recent large genome-wide association studies have found variants in TMEM106B (top SNP rs1990622) as a strong risk factor for frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Moreover, the TMEM106B risk variant is also implicated in the pathologic presentation of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we evaluated the association between TMEM106B rs1990622 polymorphism and late-onset AD (LOAD) in a Northern Han Chinese population...
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