Article
Interaction Between Odor Identification Deficit and APOE4 Predicts 6-Year Cognitive Decline in Elderly Individuals.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 2020
Olofsson Jonas K, Larsson Maria, Roa Catalina, Wilson Donald A, Jonsson Laukka Erika
Abstract excerpt
Olfactory identification impairment might indicate future cognitive decline in elderly individuals. An unresolved question is to what extent this effect is dependent on the ApoE-ε4, a genotype associated with risk of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Given the current concern about reproducibility in empirical research, we assessed this issue in a large sample (n = 1637) of older adults (60 - 96 years) from the...
Topics
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Aging
- Alleles
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins E
- Cognition
- Cognitive Dysfunction
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genotype
- Humans
