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Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype-associated disease risks: a phenome-wide, registry-based, case-control study utilising the UK Biobank.
EBioMedicine - 1 Sept 2020
Lumsden Amanda L, Mulugeta Anwar, Zhou Ang, Hyppönen Elina
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BACKGROUND: The three main alleles of the APOE gene (ε4, ε3 and ε2) carry differential risks for conditions including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cardiovascular disease. Due to their clinical significance, we explored disease associations of the APOE genotypes using a hypothesis-free, data-driven, phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) approach. METHODS: We used data from the UK Biobank to screen for...
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