Alzheimer's disease: Analyzing the missing heritability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Ridge, Perry G ^a,b   Mukherjee, Shubhabrata ^c   Crane, Paul K ^c   Kauwe, John S K ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; GENETIC MARKER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E GENE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 9; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84892407135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079771     Document Type: Article

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