Article
Apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele in association with global cognitive performance and CSF markers in Alzheimer's disease.
International journal of geriatric psychiatry - 1 Nov 1998
Lasser R A, Dukoff R, Levy J, Levin R, Lehtimäki T, Seubert P, Sunderland T
Abstract excerpt
To better define the influence of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) epsilon 4 genotype on the cognitive and biochemical features of Alzheimer's disease (AD), cross-sectional analysis of global cognitive measures and cerebrospinal fluid studies gathered on AD subjects at a tertiary care facility between 1986 and 1997 was carried out. The 112 AD patients examined included 62 women and 50 men with a mean (SD) age of 64.2...
Topics
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alleles
- Alzheimer Disease
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins E
- Cognition Disorders
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
