path(MESH:"Alzheimer Disease") positiveCorrelation p(HGNC:MAPT)
Dementia is a debilitating condition frequent in ageing populations, and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) accounts for 70% of all dementia cases. AD is characterized by neuropathological hallmarks consisting of an accumulation of Amyloid beta peptide (Ab) in extracellular plaques, intracellular deposits of tau protein, neuronal loss and, more recently, a prominent synaptic loss was identified (Braak and Braak,1991; Masliah et al., 2001; Selkoe,1991; Spires-Jones and Hyman, 2014)
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