Does the mitochondrial genome play a role in the etiology of Alzheimer’s disease?

Joanna L. Elson; Corinna Herrnstadt; Gwen Preston; Leon J. Thal; Christopher M. Morris; J.A. Edwardson; M. Flint Beal; Douglass M. Turnbull; Neil Howell

doi:10.1007/s00439-005-0123-8

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BiologyGeneticsMitochondrial DNAHaplogroupMutationGeneHuman geneticsPopulationMissense mutationAlleleHaplotypeMedicine

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Publication Info

Year: 2006
Type: article
Volume: 119
Issue: 3
Pages: 241-254
Citations: 99
Access: Closed

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