Sequence variation in the CHAT locus shows no association with late-onset Alzheimer's disease

Human Genetics

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 258-267

  Harold, Denise ^a   Peirce, Timothy ^a   Moskvina, Valentina ^a   Myers, Amanda ^b   Jones, Susan ^a   Hollingworth, Paul ^a   Moore, Pamela ^a   Lovestone, Simon ^c   Powell, John ^c   Foy, Catherine ^c   Archer, Nicola ^c   Walter, Sarah ^c   Edmonson, Amanda ^c   McIlroy, Stephen ^d   Craig, David ^d   Passmore, Peter A ^d   Goate, Alison ^e   Hardy, John ^b   O'Donovan, Michael ^a   Williams, Julie ^a   Liddell, Malcolm ^a   Owen, Michael J ^a   Jones, Lesley ^a   more..

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT; UNITED KINGDOM; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

AGED; ALLELES; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0043066904     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-003-0960-2     Document Type: Article

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