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Apolipoprotein E-associated risk for Alzheimer's disease in the African-American population is genotype dependent.
Annals of neurology - 1 Oct 1997
Sahota A, Yang M, Gao S, Hui S L, Baiyewu O, Gureje O, Oluwole S, Ogunniyi A, Hall K S, Hendrie H C
Abstract excerpt
As a part of our ongoing study on Alzheimer's disease (AD) in elderly African Americans, we obtained clinical assessment and apolipoprotein E (ApoE) genotype data on 288 individuals (including 60 with AD). The ApoE epsilon4 allele frequency was significantly increased in AD patients compared with controls. The age-adjusted odds ratio (OR) for AD in epsilon4 homozygotes was 4.83 (95% confidence interval [CI],...
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