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Presenilin-1 polymorphism in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.
Experimental neurology - 1 Aug 1997
Matsushita S, Arai H, Muramatsu T, Makimoto K, Nakagawa T, Sasaki H, Higuchi S
Abstract excerpt
Recent reports suggest an association between an intronic polymorphism at the 3' position of exon 8 of the presenilin-1 (PS-1) gene and late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), but little is known about its role in the pathogenesis of AD. By genotyping 193 Japanese patients with vascular dementia or AD, and 186 elderly control subjects, we have shown no association between vascular dementia and this PS-1...
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