Article
Association of the apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele with clinical subtypes of autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer's disease.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Sept 1994
Zubenko G S, Stiffler S, Stabler S, Kopp U, Hughes H B, Cohen B M, Moossy J
Abstract excerpt
Consistent with previous reports, we observed a significant association of the APOE epsilon 4 allele with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in a series of 91 autopsy-confirmed cases. The epsilon 4 allele frequency was higher in cases with a family history of AD-like dementia (0.54 +/- 0.07), although the epsilon 4 allele frequency in the AD cases with a negative family history (0.38 +/- 0.05) remained significantly...
Topics
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alleles
- Alzheimer Disease
- Apolipoproteins E
- Autopsy
- Base Sequence
- DNA
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
