Common neurodegenerative diseases: Dissection by genome-wide association

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 425-427

  Bonifati, Vincenzo ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EFFECT SIZE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 34548727494     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-007-0065-8     Document Type: Review

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