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APOE in non-Alzheimer amyloidoses: transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
Neurology - 1 Aug 1998
Chapman J, Cervenáková L, Petersen R B, Lee H S, Estupinan J, Richardson S, Vnencak-Jones C L, Gajdusek D C, Korczyn A D, Brown P, Goldfarb L G
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BACKGROUND: The APOE genotype has been shown to influence the risk of developing sporadic and familial AD. This effect is isoform-dependent, the APOE epsilon4 allele increasing susceptibility and the APOE epsilon2 allele providing protection. Amyloid formation is an important part of the pathogenesis in AD as well as in spongiform encephalopathies; apoE deposition in amyloid plaques has been documented in both...
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