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Failure to detect synergy between variants in transferrin and hemochromatosis and Alzheimer's disease in large cohort.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 May 2020
Vance Elizabeth, Gonzalez Murcia Josue D, Miller Justin B, Staley Lyndsay, Crane Paul K, Mukherjee Shubhabrata, Kauwe John S K
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and, despite decades of effort, there is no effective treatment. In the last decade, many association studies have identified genetic markers that are associated with AD status. Two of these studies suggest that an epistatic interaction between variants rs1049296 in the transferrin (TF) gene and rs1800562 in the homeostatic iron regulator (HFE) gene,...
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