[The major component of neuritic plaques and cerebrovascular amyloid is a 40-42 amino acid peptide termed beta-amyloid, derived as a proteolytic fragment from the large amyloid precursor protein (APP), a membrane-bound protein expressed in most tissues.]. 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