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Commingling analysis of memory performance in elderly men.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1994
Palmer C G, Wolkenstein B H, La Rue A, Swan G E, Smalley S L
Abstract excerpt
Smalley et al. [(1992) Genet Epidemiol 9:333-345] found evidence of a mixture of two distributions in memory performance among offspring of patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), suggesting that these groups reflect genotypic subgroups of carriers and non-carriers of a putative DAT gene. One prediction of this hypothesis is that, in the general population, two distributions of memory performance are...
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