Beta-amyloid precursor protein and early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

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One of the major pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the deposition in the brain parenchyma and cerebral blood vessel walls of amyloid beta-protein, a 4kDa proteolytic product of the longer beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP). Six different single base mutations in the APP gene have been reported causing early-onset Alzheimer's disease (age at onset < or = 65 years) or related amyloidosis in a small...

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