Genetic risk and resilience for Alzheimer’s disease: The effect of the three APOE alleles on brain function across life
<p>The human apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene has three alleles (ε2, ε3 and ε4). Relative to the most common ε3 allele, ε4 is associated with a higher risk of developing sporadic late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) whereas ε2 is believed to confer a protection to AD. Because of ε4's close ass...
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2016
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