Apolipoprotein E ε4 alleles and meiotic origin of non-disjunction in Down syndrome children and in their corresponding fathers and mothers

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-4

  Ezquerra, M ^a   Ballesta, F ^a   Queralt, R ^a   Aledo, R ^a   Gomez D ^b   Guitart, M ^b   Egozcue, J ^c   Ascaso, C ^a   Oliva, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Department of Anesthesiology   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

4 allele; Alzheimer; ApoE; Down syndrome; Meiosis; Non disjunction; Risk; Trisomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRISOMY; ALLELE; FATHER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NONDISJUNCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR;

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; FATHERS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOTHERS; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032557239     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00251-1     Document Type: Article

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