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Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and dementia: a hospital-based study from southern India.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2010
Bharath Srikala, Purushottam Meera, Mukherjee Odity, Bagepally Bhavani Shankara, Prakash Om, Kota Lakshminarayanan, Krishnappa Srinivas Brahmadevarahalli, Sivakumar Palanimuthu Thangaraju, Jain Sanjeev, Varghese Mathew
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: To evaluate the ApoE gene polymorphism among patients with dementia from southern India. METHODS: Persons with dementia attending a geriatric clinic in a hospital setting located in southern India and matched controls were recruited. All subjects were evaluated on standard assessments and were diagnosed according to the ICD-10; genotyping was done at the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) locus. RESULTS:...
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