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RORB, an Alzheimer’s disease susceptibility gene, is associated with viral encephalitis, an Alzheimer’s disease risk factor
2023-06-21
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Viral encephalitis increases later-life risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by a factor of 31. <h4>Methods:</h4> To further evaluate this finding, we examined the relationship of West Nile virus (WNV) to Alzheimer’s disease in 50 US states. In addition, we performed a genome wide association study (GWAS) of viral encephalitis cases in UK Biobank (UKBB) to see if any encephaliti...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 954089dc-9a79-5596-bbf0-5cf8c4dad8f6
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2661273/v2
