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Detection of Disease-associated α-synuclein by Enhanced ELISA in the Brain of Transgenic Mice Overexpressing Human A53T Mutated α-synuclein
Published on: May 30, 2015
Genetic association between Alzheimer disease and the alpha-synuclein gene
M Matsubara1, H Yamagata, K Kamino
1Department of Geriatric Medicine, Ehime University School of Medicine, Onsengun, Ehime, Japan.
Abstract:
alpha-Synuclein has been isolated as a component of amyloid in addition to the major A beta peptide in Alzheimer disease (AD). However, there are conflicting reports regarding the association of alpha-synuclein gene polymorphism with AD. Using a novel and common polymorphism in intron 3, we examined the relationship between AD and alpha-synuclein and apolipoprotein E (ApoE) genes in 183 Japanese AD patients and 210 controls. Carriers of the alpha-synuclein deletion (D) allele had a 2.2-fold increased risk of developing AD than noncarriers in women. The odds ratio for the ApoE epsilon 4 and the alpha-synuclein D allele was 11.4 in women. The results showed that the alpha-synuclein gene is associated with sporadic AD in women, independent of ApoE epsilon 4 status.
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