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Assessment of genetic risk for improved clinical-neuropathological correlations.
Acta neuropathologica communications - 10 Sept 2020
Spencer Barbara E, Jennings Robin G, Fan Chun C, Brewer James B
Abstract excerpt
In the clinical diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies, distinction from Alzheimer's disease is suboptimal and complicated by shared genetic risk factors and frequent co-pathology. In the present study we tested the ability of polygenic scores for Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and Parkinson's disease to differentiate individuals in a 2713-participant, pathologically defined sample. A dementia...
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