The presenilin genes: A new gene family involved in Alzheimer disease pathology

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue REVIEW, 1996, Pages 1449-1455

  Cruts, Marc ^a   Hendriks, Lydia ^a   Van Broeckhoven, Christine ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CHROMOSOME 1Q; EXON; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOLOGY; PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029813255     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.supplement_1.1449     Document Type: Review

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