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Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 association with dementia in a population-based study: The Framingham study.
Neurology - 1 Mar 1996
Myers R H, Schaefer E J, Wilson P W, D'Agostino R, Ordovas J M, Espino A, Au R, White R F, Knoefel J E, Cobb J L, McNulty K A, Beiser A, Wolf P A
Abstract excerpt
Apolipoprotein E type 4 allele (apoE epsilon4) is associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the late-onset familial form and in sporadic cases, but the age-associated risk in a randomly sampled elderly population is not established. We examined the association of apoE epsilon4 with AD and other dementias (mainly multi-infarct or dementia following stroke) in 1,030 persons aged 71 to 100 years in the...
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