Article
Olfactory identification and apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele in mild cognitive impairment.
Brain research - 27 Sept 2002
Wang Qing-Song, Tian Lin, Huang Yong-Lu, Qin Song, He Long-Quan, Zhou Jiang-Ning
Abstract excerpt
To investigate olfactory identification and apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), we used Cross-Cultural Smell Identification Test (CC-SIT) from University of Pennsylvania to assess olfactory identification performance and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 (ApoE epsilon 4) allele in 28 patients with MCI and the 30 age-matched control...
Topics
- Age Factors
- Aged
- Alzheimer Disease
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins E
- China
- Cognition Disorders
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers