Lack of an association between Alzheimer's disease and the cystatin C (CST3) gene G73A polymorphism in mainland Chinese

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 461-464

  Wang, Binbin ^a,d   Xie, Yan Chen ^b   Yang, Ze ^c   Peng, Dantao ^c   Wang, Jing ^a,d   Zhou, Sirui ^a,d   Li, Shu ^b   Ma, Xu ^a,d,e  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^d PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Apolipoprotein E; Chinese; CST3; Cystatin C; Late onset Alzheimer's disease

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CYSTATIN C;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; CYSTATINS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 43049149424     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000125670     Document Type: Article

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