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Cerebral hemorrhage and apoE.
Journal of neurology - 1 Sept 1999
Garcia C, Pinho e Melo T, Rocha L, Lechner M C
Abstract excerpt
The epsilon4 allele of apolipoprotein E (apoE) is found more commonly among patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) than in the normal population. ApoE is associated with brain amyloid, a component of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which is both a pathological feature of AD and a frequent cause of lobar intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). We hypothesized that the frequency of epsilon4 allele is higher in patients...
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