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Alzheimer's disease genes and cognition in the nondemented general population.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Mar 2013
Verhaaren Benjamin F J, Vernooij Meike W, Koudstaal Peter J, Uitterlinden André G, van Duijn Cornelia M, Hofman Albert, Breteler Monique M B, Ikram M Arfan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have established 11 genes for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). We investigated whether these genes jointly affect cognition in a nondemented population and improve prediction of AD. METHODS: In 5171 nondemented people (age 45-99 years) from the population-based Rotterdam Study, we genotyped APOE-ε4 and single nucleotide polymorphisms from the genes CLU, PICALM,...
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