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APOE related hippocampal shape alteration in geriatric depression.
NeuroImage - 1 Feb 2009
Qiu Anqi, Taylor Warren D, Zhao Zheen, MacFall James R, Miller Michael I, Key Cynthia R, Payne Martha E, Steffens David C, Krishnan K Ranga R
Abstract excerpt
Late-onset depression often precedes the onset of dementia associated with the hippocampal degeneration. Using large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping (LDDMM), we evaluated apolipoprotein E epsilon-4 allele (apoE E4) effects on hippocampal volume and shape in 38 depressed patients without the apoE E4, 14 depressed patients with one apoE E4, and 31 healthy comparison subjects without the apoE E4. The...
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