Association between bleomycin hydrolase and Alzheimer's disease in Caucasians

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 808-811

  Farrer, Lindsay A ^a   Abraham, Carmela R ^a   Haines, Jonathan L ^b   Rogaeva, Ekaterina A ^c   Song, Youqiang ^c   McGraw, Walker T ^a   Brindle, Nicholas ^c   Premkumar, Smita ^a   Scott, William K ^d   Yamaoka, Larry H ^d   Saunders, Ann M ^d   Roses, Allen D ^d   Auerbach, Sanford A ^a   Sorbi, Sandro ^e   Duara, Ranjan ^f   Pericak Vance, Margaret A ^d   St George Hyslop, Peter H ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; BLEOMYCIN; HYDROLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031738821     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410440515     Document Type: Article

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