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What do we learn from a few familial Alzheimer's disease cases?
Journal of neural transmission. Supplementum - 1 Jan 1998
Haass C, Baumeister R
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. About 90% of the cases occur sporadically whereas in 10% of the cases mutations were found within three different genes. Mutations in the gene encoding the beta-Amyloid precursor protein (beta APP) are located in the ultimate neighborhood of the three proteases (secretases) involved in proteolytic processing of beta APP. These mutations cause an increased...
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