Development of cervical fat pads following therapy with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease inhibitors |
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Authors: | VR Roth S Kravcik JB Angel |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. hkunugi@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | Several lines of evidence have suggested a possible involvement of neurotrophic factors in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disease. We examined whether a missense mutation (Gly[-63]Glu) of the neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) gene is associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a Japanese sample of 123 patients and 215 controls. We found that homozygotes or heterozygotes for the mutated type (Glu[-63]) were significantly more common among the patients than the controls (P = 0.013, odds ratio 1.77, 95% CI 1.12-2.79). The mutated type was more frequent among the patients than the controls (P = 0.011, odds ratio 1.63, 95%CI 1.11-2.38). This association between NT-3 and AD was more prominent among those who did not carry the epsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene than those who carried the epsilon4 allele. Our results suggest that the Glu(-63) allele of the NT-3 gene by itself or another mutation nearby which would be in linkage disequilibrium to the mutation is a risk factor for AD. |
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