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Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's disease. The tip of the susceptibility iceberg.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 30 Nov 1998
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Abstract excerpt
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is a true susceptibility polymorphism of the common form of Alzheimer's disease (AD). There are three APOE alleles (epsilon 2, epsilon 3, epsilon 4) that are universally distributed in the population with some variation in allele frequency due to racial and ethnic differences, and are associated with different risks and age of onset distributions. In multiple studies, the positive...
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