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Heritability of cognitive traits among siblings with a parental history of Alzheimer's disease.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 1 Jan 2015
Darst Burcu F, Koscik Rebecca L, Hermann Bruce P, La Rue Asenath, Sager Mark A, Johnson Sterling C, Engelman Corinne D
Abstract excerpt
Cognitive decline is one of the hallmark features of Alzheimer's disease, but many studies struggle to find strong associations between cognitive function and genetic variants. In order to identify which aspects of cognition are more likely to have a strong genetic component, we assessed the heritability of various cognitive functions related to Alzheimer's disease in 303 initially asymptomatic middle-aged adult...
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