[Previous studies found an association of DS with -48C/T presenilin-1 and with the -850 tumor necrosis factor-alpha, two polymorphisms of genes involved in amyloid beta modulation In this study, we evaluated whether the insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE), a protease involved in the degradation of endogenous brain-derived Abeta peptides, is involved in DS-related AD.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE