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SUBMITTER: Reitz C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4677675 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Expert review of molecular diagnostics 20150129 3
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia in western societies, is a pathologically and clinically heterogeneous disease with a strong genetic component. The recent advances in high-throughput genome technologies allowing for the rapid analysis of millions of polymorphisms in thousands of subjects has significantly advanced our understanding of the genomic underpinnings of AD susceptibility. During the last 5 years, genome-wide association and whole-exome- and whole-genome seque ...[more]