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No association between the low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP) gene and late-onset Alzheimer's disease in a community-based sample.
Neuroscience letters - 19 Sept 1997
Fallin D, Kundtz A, Town T, Gauntlett A C, Duara R, Barker W, Crawford F, Mullan M
Abstract excerpt
It is now commonly known that possession of the epsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene confers an increased risk for both familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD), in a dose-dependent way. Other genes that may play a role in AD, either through independent association with the disease or through modification of the existing APOE risk, have been reported with conflicting results. One such gene,...
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