Nicastrin gene in familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 353, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-65

  Confaloni, Annamaria ^a   Terreni, Liana ^b   Piscopo, Paola ^a   Crestini, Alessio ^a   Campeggi, Lorenzo Malvezzi ^a   Frigerio, Carlo Sala ^b   Blotta, Ida ^a   Perri, Maria ^c   Di Natale, Manuela ^c   Maletta, Raffaele ^c   Marcon, Gabriella ^d   Franceschi, Massimo ^e   Bruni, Amalia C ^c   Forloni, Gianluigi ^b   Cantafora, Alfredo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^c ASL 6   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

^e Clinica S Maria   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid precursor protein; Missense mutation; Presenilin; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Amyloid

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; NICASTRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NICASTRIN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 10744226038     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

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