No detected mutations in the genes for the amyloid precursor protein and presenilins 1 and 2 in a Swiss early-onset Alzheimer's disease family with a dominant mode of inheritance

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 431-436

  Savioz, A ^a   Leuba, G ^b,d   Forsell, C ^c   Lilius, L ^c   Rossier, C ^a   Saini, K ^b   Bouras, C ^a   Lannfelt, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amyloid precursor protein; Early onset Alzheimer's disease; Mutation screen; Presenilin

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 2;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INHERITANCE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PRESENILIN-1; PRESENILIN-2; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032739695     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017185     Document Type: Article

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