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Neuropathologic intermediate phenotypes enhance association to Alzheimer susceptibility alleles.
Neurology - 28 Apr 2009
Bennett David A, De Jager Philip L, Leurgans Sue E, Schneider Julie A
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OBJECTIVE: The identification of susceptibility alleles to risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) is a major public health priority. Using apolipoprotein E genotype (APOE), we examined whether neuropathologic intermediate phenotypes, the pathology underlying clinical AD that presumably lies intermediate in the causal chain, would increase power for genetic associations. METHODS: More than 700 older persons underwent...
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