Polymorphisms in the promoter of the human APP gene: Functional evaluation and allele frequencies in Alzheimer disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1793-1799

  Athan, Eleni S ^a,b,c,d,e   Lee, Joseph H ^a,b,c,d,e   Arriaga, Alex ^a,b,c,d,e   Mayeux, Richard P ^a,b,c,d,e   Tycko, Benjamin ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Columbia University Irving Medical Center   (United States)

^b and Epidemiology   (United States)

^c Departments of Neurology Medicine   (United States)

^d Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

^e The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

AGED; ALLELES; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036845563     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.59.11.1793     Document Type: Article

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