Article
Longitudinal changes in cognition and behavior in asymptomatic carriers of the APOE e4 allele.
Neurology - 8 Jun 2004
Caselli R J, Reiman E M, Osborne D, Hentz J G, Baxter L C, Hernandez J L, Alexander G G
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether memory loss is detectable before the symptomatic presentation of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in those at greater genetic risk for Alzheimer disease (AD) based upon presence or absence of the e4 allele of APOE. METHODS: Participants were age 50 years or older who responded to newspaper advertisements. A total of 212 cognitively normal individuals of known APOE genotype were...
Topics
- Aged
- Alzheimer Disease
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins E
- Arizona
- Bias
- Cognition
- Cohort Studies
- Depression
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
