Article
Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease: current status on apolipoprotein E4 gene research.
Reviews in the neurosciences - 1 Jan 2000
Das H K, Lal H
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects millions of people throughout the world. The financial and emotional costs that are inflicted by this devastating disease are enormous. Genes responsible for the early-onset familial AD have been cloned and found to be membrane associated transport proteins. Evide...
Topics
- Age of Onset
- Alzheimer Disease
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins E
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- Genetic Code
- Humans
- Membrane Proteins
- Mutation