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The gain of apolipoprotein E genotyping to separate patients with Alzheimer's disease from normal individuals: relevance to community studies.
Dementia (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2000
Frisoni G B, Geroldi C, Bianchetti A, Binetti G, Trabucchi M
Abstract excerpt
Neuropsychological screening tests such as the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) are commonly used for case finding in community studies on dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the high proportion of false-positives is an important limitation to the feasibility of such studies. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether adding apoliporotein E (apoE) genotyping to the MMSE is followed by a...
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