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The Epistasis Project: a multi-cohort study of the effects of BDNF, DBH and SORT1 epistasis on Alzheimer's disease risk (2019)
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Belbin, O., Morgan, K., Medway, C., Warden, D., Cortina-Borja, M., van Duijn, C. M., …Lehmann, D. J. (2019). The Epistasis Project: a multi-cohort study of the effects of BDNF, DBH and SORT1 epistasis on Alzheimer's disease risk. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 68(4), 1535-1547. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-181116

Pre-synaptic secretion of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) from noradrenergic neurons may protect the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain from amyloid pathology. While the BDNF polymorphism (rs6265) is associated with faster cognitive decline and... Read More about The Epistasis Project: a multi-cohort study of the effects of BDNF, DBH and SORT1 epistasis on Alzheimer's disease risk.