Possible association of missense mutation (Gly-63Glu) of the neurotrophin-3 gene with Alzheimer's disease in Japanese

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-67

  Kunugi, Hiroshi ^a   Hattori, Mineko ^a   Ueki, Akira ^b   Isse, Kunihiro ^c   Hirasawa, Hideto ^d   Nanko, Shinichiro ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Department of Psychiatry Tokyo Metropol Ebara H ^*  (Japan)

^d Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Apolipoprotein E; Association study; Chromosome 12; Neurotrophin 3; Polymorphism; Sporadic

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0032559350     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00953-1     Document Type: Article

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