Alpha-2 macroglobulin is genetically associated with Alzheimer disease.

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Published in Nat Genet on August 01, 1998

Authors

D Blacker1, M A Wilcox, N M Laird, L Rodes, S M Horvath, R C Go, R Perry, B Watson, S S Bassett, M G McInnis, M S Albert, B T Hyman, R E Tanzi

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1: Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA.

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