Article
Apolipoprotein E genotypes and age of onset in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease.
Annals of neurology - 1 Oct 1995
Levy-Lahad E, Lahad A, Wijsman E M, Bird T D, Schellenberg G D
Abstract excerpt
The effect of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon 4 allele on age of onset was analyzed in two groups of families with early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), (1) Volga German (VG) kindreds, in which AD is caused by an unknown locus and (2) early-onset non-VG families showing evidence of linkage to chromosome 14. The epsilon 4 allele did not have a detectable effect on age of onset in either group. This finding...
Topics
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Alleles
- Alzheimer Disease
- Apolipoproteins E
- Genotype
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Time Factors
