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Genetic association between the APOE*4 allele and Lewy bodies in Alzheimer disease.
Neurology - 8 Feb 2005
Tsuang D W, Wilson R K, Lopez O L, Luedecking-Zimmer E K, Leverenz J B, DeKosky S T, Kamboh M I, Hamilton R L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between APOE*4 and pathologically confirmed cases of the Lewy body (LB) variant of Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS: With use of alpha-synuclein (AS) immunohistochemistry, LBs were detected in 74 of 131 (56.5%) of the AD + LB cases; the remaining 57 cases (43.5%) did not have LBs. RESULTS: There were no differences in gender or age between Caucasian subjects with AD + LB or AD...
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