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Lack of association of very low density lipoprotein receptor gene polymorphism with Caucasian Alzheimer's disease.
Annals of neurology - 1 Aug 1996
Okuizumi K, Onodera O, Seki K, Tanaka H, Namba Y, Ikeda K, Saunders A M, Pericak-Vance M A, Roses A D, Tsuji S
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether the association of the very low density lipoprotein receptor (VLDL-R) gene with Alzheimer's disease (AD), which has recently been identified in Japanese AD patients, is commonly observed in AD patients of other ethnic backgrounds, we have investigated the allele frequency of the polymorphic CGG repeat in the 5'-UTR of the VLDL-R gene using a data set of 84 Caucasian AD patients with 104...
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