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Distribution of apolipoprotein E4 isoform in Alzheimer's disease in Poland.
Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis - 1 Jan 1997
Bratosiewicz-Zapart J, Kłoszewska I, Sobów T, Liberski P P
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common human progressive dementia linked, in its sporadic form, to a common polymorphism within a gene for apolipoprotein E (APOE) mapped to chromosome 19. Individuals with APOE 4 isoforms are more prone to develop sporadic from of AD than those who carry APOE 2 or APOE 3 alleles. As distribution of APOE isoforms in Poland is unknown, we decided to study it in AD and control...
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