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A preliminary study of apolipoprotein E genotype and psychiatric manifestations of Alzheimer's disease.
Neurology - 1 Jul 1996
Ramachandran G, Marder K, Tang M, Schofield P W, Chun M R, Devanand D P, Stern Y, Mayeux R
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We evaluated the frequency of depression and psychosis in 46 patients with AD and 135 control subjects with the apolipoprotein (APO) E3/3 or E3/4 genotype. Patients with AD and the APOE3/4 genotype had a more than threefold increase in the signs of depression and psychosis when compared with either patients with the APOE3/3 genotype or to control subjects. Our preliminary study suggests that the phenotype of AD...
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