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Family-based association analysis of NAV2 gene with the risk and age at onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 15 Sept 2017
Wang Ke-Sheng, Liu Ying, Xu Chun, Liu Xuefeng, Luo Xingguang
Abstract excerpt
The neuron navigator 2 (NAV2) gene is highly expressed in brain and involved in the nervous system development and may play a role in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We aimed to investigate the associations of 317 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the NAV2 gene with the risk and age at onset (AAO) of AD using a family-based sample (1266 AD cases and 1279 healthy relatives). Association with the risk of AD was...
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