Article
Gender-specific association of the angiotensin converting enzyme gene with Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience letters - 25 Feb 2000
Crawford F, Abdullah L, Schinka J, Suo Z, Gold M, Duara R, Mullan M
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that risk factors for vascular disease are also risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The gene for the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) has recently been reported to be associated with risk for AD. We have investigated the possibility of such an association in 98 clinic-based and 73 community-based AD cases versus 175 community-based controls and find a...
Topics
- Alzheimer Disease
- Case-Control Studies
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Confidence Intervals
- Female
- Florida
- Gene Frequency
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male