No association of prion protein gene polymorphisms with Alzheimer's disease in Korean population

Experimental and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 727-731

  Ahn, Kyungsook ^a   Kim, Eunkyung ^a   Kwon, Young A ^b   Doh, Kwan Kim ^b   Lee, Jong Eun ^c   Sangmee, Ahn Jo ^a  

^a Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c DNA Link Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Apolipoproteins E; Creutzfeldt Jakob syndrome; Human; Polymorphism; Prion diseases; PRNP protein; Single nucleotide

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E EPSILON4; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; PRION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 33846242933     PISSN: 12263613     EISSN: 20926413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emm.2006.85     Document Type: Article

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