Lack of association between alpha 1-antichymotrypsin polymorphism, Alzheimer's disease, and allele epsilon 4 of apolipoprotein E.

Müller, U; Bödeker, R H; Gerundt, I; Kurz, A · Neurology · 1996

case_control · Level III

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Abstract

We investigated the possibility that a polymorphism of alpha 1-antichymotrypsin modifies the risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Testing 147 AD patients and 74 controls, we did not find evidence of an association between alpha 1-antichymotrypsin polymorphism and AD and also failed to detect a modifying effect of this polymorphism in patients carrying at least one epsilon 4 allele of apolipoprotein E.

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