Genetic variation in the cholesterol 24-hydroxylase (CYP46) gene and the risk of Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 328, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-12

  Desai, Purnima ^a   DeKosky, Steven T ^b   Kamboh, M Ilyas ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Association studies; Cholesterol; Cholesterol 24 hydroxylase; Sporadic late onset

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL 24 HYDROXYLASE; DNA; OXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHOLESTEROL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; COHORT STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STEROID HYDROXYLASES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037008389     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00443-3     Document Type: Article

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