No genetic association between PCSK9 polymorphisms and Alzheimer's disease and plasma cholesterol level in Japanese patients

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 239-

  Shibata, Nobuto ^a   Ohnuma, Tohru ^a   Higashi, Shinji ^a   Higashi, Maiko ^a   Usui, Chie ^a   Ohkubo, Taku ^a   Watanabe, Tomoko ^a   Kawashima, Ritsuko ^a   Kitajima, Akiyoshi ^a   Ueki, Akira ^b   Nagao, Masatsugu ^c   Arai, Heii ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Nagao Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; NEURAL APOPTOSIS REGULATED CONVERTASE 1; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PCSK9 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE SUBTILISIN KEXIN TYPE 9 GENE; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD; GENETICS; JAPAN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; CHOLESTEROL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 33645732146     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041444-200512000-00004     Document Type: Article

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