Molecular genetics of Alzheimer's disease

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 560-565

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

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Genetic association studies; Genetic linkage studies; Molecular genetics

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 2;

ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 21; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0032408458     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853899809002605     Document Type: Article

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