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JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 55, Issue 10, Pages 649-655Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2010.79
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease; ANGPT4; association study; candidate genes; familial dementia; linkage analysis; SNP
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- Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma through the Karolinska Institutet
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
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This study aimed at identifying novel susceptibility genes for a mixed phenotype of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Results from a genome scan showed strongest linkage to 20p13 in 18 families, and subsequent fine mapping was performed with both microsatellites and single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 18 selected candidate transcripts in an extended sample set of 30 families. The multipoint linkage peak was located at marker rs2144151 in the ANGPT4 gene, which is a strong candidate gene for vascular disease because of its involvement in angiogenesis. Although the significance of the linkage decreased, we find this result intriguing, considering that we included additional families, and thus the reduced linkage signal may be caused by genetic heterogeneity. Journal of Human Genetics (2010) 55, 649-655; doi: 10.1038/jhg.2010.79; published online 1 July 2010
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