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Newest in this topic

  1. Potential genetic modifiers of disease risk and age at onset in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and GRN mutations: a genome-wide association study 2018-04-30
  2. Differential Aging Analysis in Human Cerebral Cortex Identifies Variants in TMEM106B and GRN that Regulate Aging Phenotypes 2017-03-18

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Date range

2017 to 2018

Top journals

  • Cell systems 1
  • The Lancet. Neurology 1

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  1. The effect of genome-wide significant variants at the GFRA2 locus on expression of GFRA2 was assessed using mRNA expression studies in cerebellar tissue samples from the Mayo Clinic brain bank.

  2. Differential Aging Analysis in Human Cerebral Cortex Identifies Variants in TMEM106B and GRN that Regulate Aging Phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cell systems 2017-03-18 Genetics

    Human age-associated traits, such as cognitive decline, can be highly variable across the population, with some individuals exhibiting traits that are not expected at a given chronological age.

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