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[The apolipoprotein E genotype and Down's syndrome].
Revista clinica espanola - 1 Oct 1997
Rascón Trincado M V, González Sarmiento R, Salazar A-Villalobos V
Abstract excerpt
Some individuals with Down syndrome develop an Alzheimer-type dementia in the third and fourth decades of life. Dementia in Alzheimer disease has been associated with the presence of genotype epsilon 4/epsilon 4 in apolipoprotein E (apo E). By means of molecular analysis techniques genotypes in lipoprotein apo E were identified in 21 patients with Down syndrome. The results obtained showed that 76% of the studied...
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