Genetic variability in CLU and its association with Alzheimer's disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Guerreiro, Rita J ^a,b   Beck, John ^c   Gibbs, J Raphael ^a,d   Santana, Isabel ^e   Rossor, Martin N ^c   Schott, Jonathan M ^c   Nalls, Michael A ^a   Ribeiro, Helena ^b,e   Santiago, Beatriz ^e   Fox, Nick C ^c   Oliveira, Catarina ^b,e   Collinge, John ^c   Mead, Simon ^c   Singleton, Andrew ^a   Hardy, John ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; CLU PROTEIN, HUMAN; CLUSTERIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CLUSTERIN; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 77949784437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009510     Document Type: Article

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