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Loss of Y chromosome at the interface between aging and Alzheimer’s disease

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This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 31900410). This study was also supported by the Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects (Project Nos. 202001AU070055 and 202101AT070112) and the Outstanding Young Academics Award of Yunnan Normal University (2019).

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  1. School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China

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  2. The Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China

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Guo, X. Loss of Y chromosome at the interface between aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 78, 7081–7084 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-021-03935-2

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