Protective effect of the APOE-e3 allele in Alzheimer’s disease
Although several alleles of susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have been studied in the last decades, few polymorphisms have been considered as risk factors for the disease. Among them, the APOE-e4 allele appears to be the major genetic risk factor for the onset of the disease. How...
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| Formato: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2012-01-01
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| coleção: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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| Acesso em linha: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2012000100002 |