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A gene-brain-cognition pathway for the effect of an Alzheimer׳s risk gene on working memory in young adults.
Neuropsychologia - 1 Aug 2014
Stevens Benson W, DiBattista Amanda M, William Rebeck G, Green Adam E
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Identifying pathways by which genetic Alzheimer׳s disease (AD) risk factors exert neurocognitive effects in young adults are essential for the effort to develop early interventions to forestall or prevent AD onset. Here, in a brain-imaging cohort of 59 young adults, we investigated effects of a variant within the clusterin (CLU) gene on working memory function and gray matter volume in cortical areas that support...
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