Genetic association between ghrelin polymorphisms and Alzheimer's disease in a Japanese population

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 178-181

  Shibata, Nobuto ^a   Ohnuma, Tohru ^a   Kuerban, Bolati ^a   Komatsu, Miwa ^a   Arai, Heii ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Apolipoprotein E; Ghrelin; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; TAU PROTEIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GHRELIN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054052965     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333075     Document Type: Article

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