No association between apolipoprotein E ε4 allele and the age of onset in type I familial amyloid polyneuropathy

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-211

  Satoh, Shun Ichi ^a   Tokuda, Takahiko ^a   Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^a   Sekijima, Yoshiki ^a   Yanagisawa, Nobuo ^a   Hidaka, Hiroya ^a   Kametani, Fuyuki ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age at onset; Apolipoprotein E; Genotype; Transthyretin; Type I familial amyloid polyneuropathy

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

AMYLOID NEUROPATHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030021887     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12344-2     Document Type: Article

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