The tau H2 haplotype is almost exclusively Caucasian in origin

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 369, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 183-185

  Evans, Whitney ^a   Fung, Hon Chung ^a,b   Steele, John ^c   Eerola, Johanna ^d   Tienari, Pentti ^d   Pittman, Alan ^e   Silva, Rohan De ^e   Myers, Amanda ^a   Vrieze, Fabienne Wavrant De ^a   Singleton, Andrew ^a   Hardy, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Tamuning Guam 96913 ^*  (Guam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corticobasal degeneration; FTDP 17; MAPT gene; Neurofibrillary tangles; Parkinsonism; Populations genetics; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Tau

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SCREENING; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 4644372063     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.05.119     Document Type: Article

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