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Analysis of the APOE alleles impact in Down's syndrome.
Neuroscience letters - 6 Dec 1996
Lambert J C, Pérez-Tur J, Dupire M J, Delacourte A, Frigard B, Chartier-Harlin M C
Abstract excerpt
Down's syndrome (DS) patients develop the characteristic features of Alzheimer's disease (AD) by their fourth decade, some of them exhibiting an AD-type dementia. We studied the apolipoprotein E (APOE) allele distribution in a population of 41 DS patients comprising 19.5% of demented, compared to 35 control subjects. No statistical difference was observed, but the epsilon2 allele may delay the age of dementia. As...
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