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Apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer's disease: an update.
Annual review of neuroscience - 1 Jan 2014
Yu Jin-Tai, Tan Lan, Hardy John
Abstract excerpt
The vast majority of Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases are late onset (LOAD), which is genetically complex with heritability estimates up to 80%. Apolipoprotein E (APOE) has been irrefutably recognized as the major genetic risk factor, with semidominant inheritance, for LOAD. Although the mechanisms that underlie the pathogenic nature of APOE in AD are still not completely understood, emerging data suggest that APOE...
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