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Familial influence on variation in age of onset and behavioural phenotype in Alzheimer's disease.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 Feb 2000
Tunstall N, Owen M J, Williams J, Rice F, Carty S, Lillystone S, Fraser L, Kehoe P, Neill D, Rudrasingham V, Sham P, Lovestone S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease manifests considerable heterogeneity, the cause of which is unknown. AIMS: To determine the familial (genotypic) influence on phenomenology (phenotype) in Alzheimer's disease. METHOD: Affected sibling pairs with Alzheimer's disease were assessed for a range of cognitive and non-cognitive symptoms. Resemblance for phenotypic characteristics was estimated using intraclass...
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