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PICALM and Alzheimer's Disease: An Update and Perspectives.
Cells - 10 Dec 2022
Ando Kunie, Nagaraj Siranjeevi, Küçükali Fahri, de Fisenne Marie-Ange, Kosa Andreea-Claudia, Doeraene Emilie, Lopez Gutierrez Lidia, Brion Jean-Pierre, Leroy Karelle
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified the PICALM (Phosphatidylinositol binding clathrin-assembly protein) gene as the most significant genetic susceptibility locus after APOE and BIN1. PICALM is a clathrin-adaptor protein that plays a critical role in clathrin-mediated endocytosis and autophagy. Since the effects of genetic variants of PICALM as AD-susceptibility loci have been confirmed by...
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