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Significant effect of APOE epsilon 4 genotype on the risk of dementia in Alzheimer's disease and mortality in persons with Down syndrome.
International journal of geriatric psychiatry - 1 Nov 2008
Prasher V P, Sajith S G, Rees S D, Patel A, Tewari S, Schupf N, Zigman W B
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Virtually all adults with Down syndrome (DS) have neuropathological manifestations of Dementia in Alzheimer's disease (DAD) but not all develop clinical psychopathology. The effect of allelic variants of Apolipoprotein (APOE) gene in development and progression of DAD and mortality in persons with DS is examined. METHODS: Recruited participants with DS underwent two to 14 sequential assessments over a...
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