Further evidence for a synergistic association between APOE ε4 and BCHE-K in confirmed Alzheimer's disease

Human Genetics

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 158-163

  Wiebusch, Heiko ^a   Poirier, Judes ^b   Sévigny, Pierre ^a   Schappert, Keith ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; CHOLINESTERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033020325     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050929     Document Type: Article

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