Apolipoprotein E polymorphism, Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia among elderly Finnish men.

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0404.1995.tb00132.x

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Apolipoprotein E polymorphism, Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia among elderly Finnish men.

Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Oct 1995

Stengård J H, Pekkanen J, Sulkava R, Ehnholm C, Erkinjuntti T, Nissinen A

Abstract excerpt

An association between late-onset Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and the common polymorphic alleles of the gene coding for apolipoprotein E, epsilon 2, epsilon 3, and epsilon 4, was assessed in a population sample of 393 elderly Finnish men aged 70 to 89 years. Of them, 7% suffered Alzhei...

Topics

Aged
Alleles
Alzheimer Disease
Apolipoproteins E
Dementia, Vascular
Finland
Humans
Male
Phenotype
Polymorphism, Genetic

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