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Alzheimer's disease risk variant in CLU is associated with neural inefficiency in healthy individuals.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association - 1 Oct 2015
Lancaster Thomas M, Brindley Lisa M, Tansey Katherine E, Sims Rebecca C, Mantripragada Kiran, Owen Michael J, Williams Julie, Linden David E J
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INTRODUCTION: Genome-wide association studies identify rs11136000 in the CLU gene, which codes for Apolipoprotein J/Clusterin, as a significant risk variant for Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the mechanisms by which this variant confers susceptibility remain relatively unknown. METHODS: Eighty-five healthy Caucasian participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging during a working memory (WM) task...
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