A high-density whole-genome association study reveals that APOE is the major susceptibility gene for sporadic late-onset Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 613-618

  Coon, Keith D ^a   Myers, Amanda J ^b   Craig, David W ^a   Webster, Jennifer A ^a   Pearson, John V ^a   Lince, Diane Hu ^a   Zismann, Victoria L ^a   Beach, Thomas G ^c   Leung, Doris ^d   Bryden, Leslie ^d   Halperin, Rebecca F ^a   Marlowe, Lauren ^d   Kaleem, Mona ^d   Walker, Douglas G ^c   Ravid, Rivka ^e   Heward, Christopher B ^f   Rogers, Joseph ^c   Papassotiropoulos, Andreas ^a,g   Reiman, Eric M ^a,h,i,j   Hardy, John ^d   Stephan, Dietrich A ^a,j   more..

^a TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SUN HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^f Kronos Science Laboratory   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h BANNER ALZHEIMER S INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j ARIZONA ALZHEIMER S CONSORTIUM   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 34047272692     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.v68n0419     Document Type: Article

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