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Genes associated with Alzheimer's disease: an overview and current status.
Clinical interventions in aging - 1 Jan 2016
Giri Mohan, Zhang Man, Lü Yang
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease and the most common form of dementia in elderly people. It is an emerging public health problem that poses a huge societal burden. Linkage analysis was the first milestone in unraveling the mutations in APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2 that cause early-onset AD, followed by the discovery of apolipoprotein E-ε4 allele as the only one genetic risk factor for...
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