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Considering the APOE locus in Alzheimer's disease polygenic scores in the Health and Retirement Study: a longitudinal panel study.
BMC medical genomics - 3 Nov 2020
Ware Erin B, Faul Jessica D, Mitchell Colter M, Bakulski Kelly M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Polygenic scores are a strategy to aggregate the small, additive effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms across the genome. With phenotypes like Alzheimer's disease, which have a strong and well-established genomic locus (APOE), the cumulative effect of genetic variants outside of this area has not been well established in a population-representative sample. METHODS: Here we examine the association...
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