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Genome-wide association study of the rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association - 1 Jan 2014
Sherva Richard, Tripodis Yorghos, Bennett David A, Chibnik Lori B, Crane Paul K, de Jager Philip L, Farrer Lindsay A, Saykin Andrew J, Shulman Joshua M, Naj Adam, Green Robert C
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BACKGROUND: Substantial interindividual variability exists in the disease trajectories of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Some decline rapidly whereas others decline slowly, and there are no known explanations for this variability. We describe the first genome-wide association study to examine rate of cognitive decline in a sample of AD patients with longitudinal measures of cognition. METHODS: The discovery...
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