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PLD3 gene variants and Alzheimer's disease

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Figure 1: Forest plots of study-specific odds ratios of case–control data sets assessing the potential association between Alzheimer's disease risk and Val232Met (rs145999145) (a) or Ala442Ala (rs4819) (b).
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  1. Basavaraj V. Hooli and Christina M. Lill: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 02114, Massachusetts, USA

    Basavaraj V. Hooli, Kristina Mullin & Rudolph E. Tanzi

  2. Platform for Genome Analytics, Institutes of Neurogenetics & Integrative and Experimental Genomics, University of Lübeck, 23552 Lübeck, Germany

    Christina M. Lill & Lars Bertram

  3. Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany

    Christina M. Lill

  4. Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Christina M. Lill & Lars Bertram

  5. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Dandi Qiao & Christoph Lange

  6. School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London W6 8RP, UK,

    Lars Bertram

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R.E.T., L.B., B.V.H. and C.M.L. designed the study; B.V.H. and K.M. generated data; C.M.L., D.Q. and C.L. performed statistical analyses; B.V.H., L.B., C.M.L. and R.E.T. wrote the paper.

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Correspondence to Lars Bertram or Rudolph E. Tanzi.

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Hooli, B., Lill, C., Mullin, K. et al. PLD3 gene variants and Alzheimer's disease. Nature 520, E7–E8 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14040

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