1. Genetic association of low density lipoprotein receptor and Alzheimer's disease
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Rangaraj K. Gopalraj, Haiyan Zhu, Steven Estus, David A. Bennett, Joseph Pulliam, Marta S. Mendiondo, and Jeremiah F. Kelly
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Apolipoprotein E ,Male ,Aging ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Candidate gene ,Genotype ,Genetic Linkage ,Single-nucleotide polymorphism ,Biology ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Gene Frequency ,Alzheimer Disease ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,SNP ,Humans ,cardiovascular diseases ,Allele ,Alleles ,Genetic association ,Aged ,Genetics ,Aged, 80 and over ,General Neuroscience ,Haplotype ,food and beverages ,nutritional and metabolic diseases ,Genetic Variation ,Exons ,Endocrinology ,Receptors, LDL ,Case-Control Studies ,LDL receptor ,lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins) ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,Developmental Biology - Abstract
The low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) is an attractive candidate gene for genetic association with Alzheimer's disease (AD) because: (i) the LDLR is an apolipoprotein E (apoE) receptor, alleles of which have been associated with AD, (ii) LDLR resides at chromosome 19p13.3 within a region linked to AD, and (iii) LDLR modulates the homeostasis of cholesterol, which itself appears associated with AD. Therefore, we evaluated whether LDLR haplotypes alter the odds of AD by performing an association study examining three LDLR single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 118 AD patients and 133 non-AD subjects. LDLR genotypes were obtained by TaqMan allelic discrimination assays. Although individual LDLR SNPs were not associated with AD, analyses of unambiguous haplotypes suggested the hypothesis that the 211 LDLR haplotype was associated with reduced odds of AD. We then evaluated this hypothesis in a second study cohort, i.e., the Religious Orders Study. These results supported the hypothesis that the 211 LDLR haplotype is associated with reduced odds of AD. Moreover, these data suggested further associations between LDLR variants and AD. Thus, LDLR variants appear significantly associated with AD and merit additional study.
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- 2004