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Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 count affects age at onset of Alzheimer disease, but not lifetime susceptibility: The Cache County Study.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 May 2004
Khachaturian Ara S, Corcoran Christopher D, Mayer Lawrence S, Zandi Peter P, Breitner John C S
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BACKGROUND: The incidence of Alzheimer disease (AD) increases strongly with age, but little is known about the cumulative incidence of AD over a lifetime of 100 years, or its relationship to the polymorphic APOE locus that encodes apolipoprotein E. APOE is a strong genetic risk factor for AD. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the occurrence of AD as a function of age and number of APOE epsilon4 alleles; and to explore...
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