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APOEε2 is associated with milder clinical and pathological Alzheimer disease.
Annals of neurology - 1 Jun 2015
Serrano-Pozo Alberto, Qian Jing, Monsell Sarah E, Betensky Rebecca A, Hyman Bradley T
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The Alzheimer disease (AD) APOEε4 risk allele associates with an earlier age at onset and increased amyloid-β deposition, whereas the protective APOEε2 allele delays the onset and appears to prevent amyloid-β deposition. Yet the clinical and pathological effects of APOEε2 remain uncertain because of its relative rarity. We investigated the effects of APOEε2 and ε4 alleles on AD pathology and cognition...
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