Lack of association between a single nucleotide polymorphism within the choline acetyltransferase gene and patients with Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 343, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 167-170

  Schwarz, S ^a   Eisele, T ^a   Diehl, J ^a   Muller U ^b   Forstl H ^a   Kurz, A ^a   Riemenschneider, M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Choline acetyltransferase; Genetics; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ALLELE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGED; ALLELES; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0037872104     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00380-X     Document Type: Article

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