rs5848 variant of progranulin gene is a risk of Alzheimer's disease in the Taiwanese population

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 216-220

  Lee, Ming Jen ^a,c   Chen, Ta Fu ^a   Cheng, Ting Wen ^a   Chiu, Ming Jang ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia, risk factor; Progranulin; rs5848 gene variant

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; PROGRANULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAIWAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 79955830791     PISSN: 16602854     EISSN: 16602862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322538     Document Type: Article

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