Variant TREM2 as risk factor for alzheimer's disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 182-184

  Neumann, Harald ^a   Daly, Mark J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1 RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN TREM2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; MEMBRANOUS LIPODYSTROPHY; MICROGLIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREM2 GENE; TYROBP GENE;

EID: 84872069366     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1213157     Document Type: Editorial

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