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SUBMITTER: Liang WS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3010232 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liang Winnie S WS Chen Kewei K Lee Wendy W Sidhar Kunal K Corneveaux Jason J JJ Allen April N AN Myers Amanda A Villa Stephen S Meechoovet Bessie B Pruzin Jeremy J Bandy Daniel D Fleisher Adam S AS Langbaum Jessica B S JB Huentelman Matthew J MJ Jensen Kendall K Dunckley Travis T Caselli Richard J RJ Kaib Susan S Reiman Eric M EM
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In a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), we found an association between common haplotypes of the GAB2 gene and AD risk in carriers of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele, the major late-onset AD susceptibility gene. We previously proposed the use of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) measurements as a quantitative pre-symptomatic endophenotype, more closely related to disease risk than the clinical syndrome itself, to help evalua ...[more]