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Clinical aspects and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome.
Free radical biology & medicine - 1 Jan 2018
Zis Panagiotis, Strydom Andre
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) may affect in excess of 90% of individuals with Down syndrome (DS) after age 60, due to duplication of the APP gene in trisomy of chromosome 21, with neuropathology that is comparable to Sporadic AD and Familial AD (FAD). Previous literature suggested some unique features in clinical presentation of dementia in DS (DSd), which might be due to diagnostic difficulties, or represent a real...
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