Association between Alzheimer's disease and the NOS3 gene

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 664-667

  Dahiyat, Mohammed ^a   Cumming, Alastair ^a   Harrington, Charles ^a   Wischik, Claude ^a   Xuereb, John ^b   Corrigan, Frank ^c   Breen, Gerome ^a   Shaw, Duncan ^a   St Clair, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c Argyll and Bute NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0032880253     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(199910)46:4<664::AID-ANA18>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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