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Mutation Screening of the CHCHD2 Gene for Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia in Chinese Mainland Population.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 1 Jan 2018
Che Xiang-Qian, Zhao Qian-Hua, Huang Yue, Li Xia, Ren Ru-Jing, Chen Sheng-Di, Guo Qi-Hao, Wang Gang
Abstract excerpt
As an important multifunctional protein involved in regulation of mitochondrial metabolism, CHCHD2 was identified as a causative gene for Parkinson's disease (PD), yet the relationship between CHCHD2 and neurodegenerative dementia is not well understood. We directly sequenced the entire coding region of CHCHD2 gene in 150 AD patients, 84 FTD patients, and 417 controls. Four rare putative pathogenic variants of...
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