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Association of the epsilon 4 allele of apolipoprotein E with poor performance on a dementia screen in African Americans.
Ethnicity & disease - 1 Jan 1996
Hui S L, Gao S, Hall K S, Sahota A, Hendrie H C
Abstract excerpt
In a community-based study of Alzheimer's disease in African Americans age 65 and over, subjects were classified into three levels of performance based on their scores as measured by the Community Screening Instrument for Dementia (CSI"D"), consisting of cognitive and functioning components. In a subset of 268 subjects with apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype data, we found that the epsilon 4 allele of APOE was...
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