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Shared genetic etiology underlying Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes.
Molecular aspects of medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Hao Ke, Di Narzo Antonio Fabio, Ho Lap, Luo Wei, Li Shuyu, Chen Rong, Li Tongbin, Dubner Lauren, Pasinetti Giulio Maria
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Epidemiological evidence supports the observation that subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2D) are at higher risk to develop Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, whether and how these two conditions are causally linked is unknown. Possible mechanisms include shared genetic risk factors, which were investigated in this study based on recent genome wide association study (GWAS) findings. In order to achieve our goal, we...
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