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Reduced gray matter volume in normal adults with a maternal family history of Alzheimer disease.
Neurology - 12 Jan 2010
Honea R A, Swerdlow R H, Vidoni E D, Goodwin J, Burns J M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: A consistently identified risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD) is family history of dementia, with maternal transmission significantly more frequent than paternal transmission. A history of maternal AD may be related to AD-like glucose consumption in cognitively healthy subjects. In this cross-sectional study, we tested whether cognitively healthy people with a family history of AD have less gray...
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