Article
Apolipoprotein-E genotyping in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2000
Gustafson L, Abrahamson M, Grubb A, Nilsson K, Fex G
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are characterized by progressive neuronal loss and microvacuolization, although with different distributions of cortical involvement. In contrast to AD there is no amyloid, senile plaques or tangles in FTD. The involvement of chromosome 1...
Topics
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alleles
- Alzheimer Disease
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins E
- DNA
- Dementia
- Female
- Frontal Lobe
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Temporal Lobe