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Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele frequency is increased in Parkinson's disease only with co-existing Alzheimer pathology.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Oct 1998
Mattila P M, Koskela T, Röyttä M, Lehtimäki T, Pirttilä T A, Ilveskoski E, Karhunen P, Rinne J O
Abstract excerpt
We determined the apolipoprotein E (apoE) genotype in clinically diagnosed and neuropathologically verified cases of Parkinson's disease (PD) (n = 45), with or without Alzheimer (AD)-type changes, and compared the apoE genotype with that in healthy age-matched controls (n = 59). The PD cases were divided into two groups according to the CERAD criteria: "O + A", with no or only uncertain histological findings of...
Topics
- Aged
- Alleles
- Alzheimer Disease
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins E
- Brain
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Parkinson Disease
