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Correlations between apolipoprotein E epsilon4 gene dose and brain-imaging measurements of regional hypometabolism.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Jun 2005
Reiman Eric M, Chen Kewei, Alexander Gene E, Caselli Richard J, Bandy Daniel, Osborne David, Saunders Ann M, Hardy John
Abstract excerpt
Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have abnormally low positron emission tomography (PET) measurements of the cerebral metabolic rate for glucose (CMRgl) in regions of the precuneus and the posterior cingulate, parietotemporal, and frontal cortex. Apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 gene dose (i.e., the number of epsilon4 alleles in a person's APOE genotype) is associated with a higher risk of AD and a younger...
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