Interaction analysis of ancestry-enriched variants with APOE-ɛ4 on MCI in the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging

Abstract APOE-ɛ4 risk on Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) differs between race/ethnic groups, presumably due to ancestral genomic background surrounding the APOE locus. We studied whether African and Amerindian ancestry-enriched genetic variants in the APOE region modify...

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Main Authors: Einat Granot-Hershkovitz, Rui Xia, Yunju Yang, Brian Spitzer, Wassim Tarraf, Priscilla M. Vásquez, Richard B. Lipton, Martha Daviglus, Maria Argos, Jianwen Cai, Robert Kaplan, Myriam Fornage, Charles DeCarli, Hector M. Gonzalez, Tamar Sofer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32028-2