Genetic evidence that vascular dementia is related to Alzheimer's disease: genetic association between tau polymorphism and vascular dementia in the Chinese population

Age Ageing. 2011 Jan;40(1):125-8. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afq131. Epub 2010 Nov 2.

Authors

Mei Ning¹, Zhou Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Teng Zhao, Di Zhang, Daizhan Zhou, Weidong Li, Yun Liu, Yifeng Yang, Sheng Li, Lin He

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 21044986
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afq131

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Alzheimer Disease / ethnology*
Alzheimer Disease / genetics*
Case-Control Studies
China
Dementia, Vascular / ethnology*
Dementia, Vascular / genetics*
Female
Genotype
Haplotypes / genetics
Humans
Linkage Disequilibrium / genetics
Male
Middle Aged
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / genetics*
tau Proteins / genetics*

Substances

MAPT protein, human
tau Proteins