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Genomics and CSF analyses implicate thyroid hormone in hippocampal sclerosis of aging.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Dec 2016
Nelson Peter T, Katsumata Yuriko, Nho Kwangsik, Artiushin Sergey C, Jicha Gregory A, Wang Wang-Xia, Abner Erin L, Saykin Andrew J, Kukull Walter A, Fardo David W
Abstract excerpt
We report evidence of a novel pathogenetic mechanism in which thyroid hormone dysregulation contributes to dementia in elderly persons. Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on chromosome 12p12 were the initial foci of our study: rs704180 and rs73069071. These SNPs were identified by separate research groups as risk alleles for non-Alzheimer's neurodegeneration. We found that the rs73069071 risk genotype was...
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