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Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease: common molecular traits beyond the amyloid precursor protein.
Aging - 9 Jan 2020
Gomez Wileidy, Morales Rodrigo, Maracaja-Coutinho Vinicius, Parra Valentina, Nassif Melissa
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent type of dementia. Down syndrome (DS) is the leading genetic risk factor for Early-Onset AD, prematurely presenting the classic pathological features of the brain with AD. Augmented gene dosage, including the APP gene, could partially cause this predisposition. Recent works have revealed that alterations in chromosome location due to the extra Chromosome 21, as well...
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