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The Role of PICALM in Alzheimer's Disease.
Molecular neurobiology - 1 Aug 2015
Xu Wei, Tan Lan, Yu Jin-Tai
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a highly heritable disease (with heritability up to 76%) with a complex genetic profile of susceptibility, among which large genome-wide association studies (GWASs) pointed to the phosphatidylinositol-binding clathrin assembly protein (PICALM) gene as a susceptibility locus for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) incidence. Here, we summarize the known functions of PICALM and discuss...
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