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Apolipoprotein E genotype and hippocampal asymmetry in Alzheimer's disease: a volumetric MRI study.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Jan 2000
Geroldi C, Laakso M P, DeCarli C, Beltramello A, Bianchetti A, Soininen H, Trabucchi M, Frisoni G B
Abstract excerpt
Asymmetry of brain structures is common to many species and is even present in utero. Some developmental, pathological, and dementing diseases are associated with alterations in normal anatomical asymmetries. Anatomical asymmetries, however, have been only superficially studied in Alzheimer's disease. Recent evidence indicates that the allele epsilon4 of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE), a well known risk factor for...
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