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Apolipoprotein E phenotype is not related to late-life depression in a population-based sample.
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology - 1 Jan 1998
Schmand B, Hooijer C, Jonker C, Lindeboom J, Havekes L M
Abstract excerpt
Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) allele frequencies were examined in a population-based sample (n = 475: age range 65-84 years: Amsterdam Study of the Elderly). The relation of ApoE epsilon 4 with dementia and with various types of late-life depression was studied. Depression was measured with the Geriatric Mental State schedule. Dementia was diagnosed by DSM-III-R criteria. It was expected that ApoE epsilon 4 allele...
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