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Apolipoprotein e gene variability and cognitive functions at age 79: a follow-up of the Scottish mental survey of 1932.
Psychology and aging - 1 Jun 2004
Deary Ian J, Whiteman Martha C, Pattie Alison, Starr John M, Hayward Caroline, Wright Alan F, Visscher Peter M, Tynan Maria C, Whalley Lawrence J
Abstract excerpt
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype is a possible influence on nonpathological cognitive aging. The authors studied 462 community-dwelling, 79-year-old people born in 1921, whose childhood IQ had been assessed in the Scottish Mental Survey of 1932 (Scottish Council for Research in Education, 1933). Adjusting for sex, childhood IQ, and self-reported illnesses, the authors found that those with an APOE e4 allele had...
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