
pmid: 17975299
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressively disabling impairments in memory, cognition, and non-cognitive behavioural symptoms. Sporadic AD is multifactorial and genetically complex. While several monogenic mutations cause early-onset AD and gene alleles have been suggested as AD susceptibility factors, the only extensively validated susceptibility gene for late-onset AD is the apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 allele. Alleles of the APOE gene do not account for all of the genetic load calculated to be responsible for AD predisposition. Recently, polymorphisms across the neuronal sortilin-related receptor (SORL1) gene were shown to be significantly associated with AD in several cohorts. Here we present the results of our large case-control whole-genome scan at over 500,000 polymorphisms which presents weak evidence for association and potentially narrows the association interval.
Aged, 80 and over, Genetic Markers, Male, Polymorphism, Genetic, Membrane Transport Proteins, 610 Medicine & health, 11359 Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), 2728 Neurology (clinical), Alzheimer Disease, 2808 Neurology, Case-Control Studies, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, LDL-Receptor Related Proteins, Aged
Aged, 80 and over, Genetic Markers, Male, Polymorphism, Genetic, Membrane Transport Proteins, 610 Medicine & health, 11359 Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), 2728 Neurology (clinical), Alzheimer Disease, 2808 Neurology, Case-Control Studies, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, LDL-Receptor Related Proteins, Aged
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