No association between polymorphisms in the neprilysin promoter region and Swedish Alzheimer's disease patients

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-113

  Lilius, Lena ^a   Forsell, Charlotte ^a   Axelman, Karin ^b   Winblad, Bengt ^a   Graff, Caroline ^a   Tjernberg, Lars ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Chromosome 3; Neprilysin; Promoter region

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE METALLOENDOPEPTIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0037421496     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(02)01300-9     Document Type: Article

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