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Association of the apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele with late-onset depression.
Neuroepidemiology - 1 Oct 2001
Rigaud A S, Traykov L, Caputo L, Coste J, Latour F, Couderc R, Moulin F, Boller F, Forette F
Abstract excerpt
Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) phenotyping was determined in 42 subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 49 with depression, including 26 with early-onset depression (EOD) and 23 with late-onset depression (LOD), and 49 controls. In the EOD group, the frequency of the ApoE epsilon4 allele was not different from the control frequency (p = 0.532) but was significantly lower than in AD (p < 0.001). In the LOD group, the...
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