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Interaction between variants in CLU and MS4A4E modulates Alzheimer's disease risk.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association - 1 Feb 2016
Ebbert Mark T W, Boehme Kevin L, Wadsworth Mark E, Staley Lyndsay A, Mukherjee Shubhabrata, Crane Paul K, Ridge Perry G, Kauwe John S K
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Ebbert et al. reported gene-gene interactions between rs11136000-rs670139 (CLU-MS4A4E) and rs3865444-rs670139 (CD33-MS4A4E). We evaluate these interactions in the largest data set for an epistasis study. METHODS: We tested interactions using 3837 cases and 4145 controls from Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium using meta-analyses and permutation analyses. We repeated meta-analyses stratified by...
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