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A Systems Biology Approach for the Identification of Active Molecular Pathways During the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease

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  1. Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

    Aristidis G. Vrahatis & Panayiotis Vlamos

  2. Department of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

    Ilias S. Kotsireas

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Vrahatis, A.G., Kotsireas, I.S., Vlamos, P. (2020). A Systems Biology Approach for the Identification of Active Molecular Pathways During the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2018. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32622-7_28

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