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The association of apolipoprotein E gene polymorphisms with cerebral palsy in Chinese infants.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Jun 2014
Xu Yiran, Wang Honglian, Sun Yanyan, Shang Qing, Chen Mingjie, Li Tongchuan, Zhu Dengna, He Lin, Zhu Changlian, Xing Qinghe
Abstract excerpt
Apolipoprotein E (APOE, protein; ApoE, gene) is a lipid transport protein abundantly present in brain cells. Previous studies have suggested that there is an association between genetic variants of ApoE and susceptibility to cerebral palsy (CP). The purpose of this study was to explore whether the ApoE gene is involved in the etiology of CP in the Chinese population. In this study, 350 CP patients and 242 healthy...
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