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Genetic and molecular advances in Alzheimer's disease.
Trends in neurosciences - 1 Oct 1993
Mullan M, Crawford F
Abstract excerpt
The abnormal deposition of amyloid beta protein (A beta) in the brain is the major neuropathological characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The disease in some early-onset familial cases develops as a result of mutations in the gene coding for the beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta APP) and in the majority of the rest appears to be caused by an unidentified gene on chromosome 14. Only one of the beta APP...
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