Influence of APOE genotype and the presence of Alzheimer's pathology on synaptic membrane lipids of human brains.

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The APOE genotype is the major risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, it remains unclarified how the ε4 allele accelerates whereas the ε2 allele suppresses AD development, compared with the more common ε3 allele. On the basis of the previous finding that the assembly of the amyloid-β protein (Aβ) into fibrils in the brain, an early and invariable pathological feature of AD, depends on the lipid...

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