Transfection "junk" DNA - A link to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1140-1141

  MacDonald, Alan B ^a  

^a St Catherine of Siena Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CHROMOSOME 11Q; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; JUNK TRANSFECTION; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 33645210497     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.12.028     Document Type: Article

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