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Evidence for apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 association in early-onset Alzheimer's patients with late-onset relatives.
American journal of medical genetics - 18 Dec 1995
Pérez-Tur J, Campion D, Martinez M, Brice A, Tardieu S, Hannequin D, Agid Y, Delacourte A, Clerget-Darpoux F, Chartier-Harlin M C
Abstract excerpt
Recently several reports have extended the apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon 4 association found in late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) patients to early-onset (EO) AD patients. We have studied this question in a large population of 119 EOAD patients (onset < or = 60 years) in which family history was carefully assessed and in 109 controls. We show that the APOE epsilon 4 allele frequency is increased only in the...
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