Article
The Impact of Apolipoprotein E (APOE) Epigenetics on Aging and Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease
2023-11-03
Abstract excerpt
Sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) derives from an interplay among environmental factors and genetic variants, while epigenetic modifications have been expected to affect the onset and progression of its complex etiopathology. Heterozygous carriers of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE)4 allele have a 4-fold increased risk of developing AD, while APOE 4/4-carriers have a 12-fold increased risk in comparison with t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4c7a452d-05bb-5bce-910e-9990310e96fb
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202311.0227.v1
