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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Rodrigo dos Santos Chaves in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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Most cases of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are sporadic (sAD), therefore a small fraction (5%) of AD is familial (fAD) due to the inheritance of mutated genes. Mutations in presenilin genes (PS1 and PS2) account for 40% of AD familial cases. The most severe mutation in PS1 is a donor-acceptor splice mutation that causes two amino-acid substitutions and an in-frame deletion of exon 9 (PS1-E9)…
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