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Characterizing Apolipoprotein E ε4 Carriers and Noncarriers With the Clinical Diagnosis of Mild to Moderate Alzheimer Dementia and Minimal β-Amyloid Peptide Plaques.
JAMA neurology - 1 Oct 2015
Monsell Sarah E, Kukull Walter A, Roher Alex E, Maarouf Chera L, Serrano Geidy, Beach Thomas G, Caselli Richard J, Montine Thomas J, Reiman Eric M
Abstract excerpt
IMPORTANCE: β-Amyloid peptide (Aβ) plaques are a cardinal neuropathologic feature of Alzheimer disease (AD), yet more than one-third of apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE4) noncarriers with the clinical diagnosis of mild to moderate Alzheimer dementia may not meet positron emission tomographic criteria for significant cerebral amyloidosis. OBJECTIVES: To clarify the percentage of APOE4 carriers and noncarriers with the...
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