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Cloning of a gene bearing missense mutations in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease

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Some cases of Alzheimer's disease are inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Genetic linkage studies have mapped a locus (AD3) associated with susceptibility to a very aggressive form of Alzheimer's disease to chromosome 14q24.3. We have defined a minimal cosegregating region containing the AD3 gene, and isolated at least 19 different transcripts encoded within this region. One of these transcripts (S182) corresponds to a novel gene whose product is predicted to contain multiple transmembrane domains and resembles an integral membrane protein. Five different missense mutations have been found that cosegregate with early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease. Because these changes occurred in conserved domains of this gene, and are not present in normal controls, they are likely to be causative of AD3.

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Sherrington, R., Rogaev, E., Liang, Y. et al. Cloning of a gene bearing missense mutations in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease. Nature 375, 754–760 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/375754a0

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