Impact of sample selection on APOE ε4 allele frequency: A comparison of two Alzheimer's disease samples

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 704-707

  Tsuang, Debby ^b   Kukull, Walter ^c   Sheppard, Lianne ^c   Barnhart, Ross L ^c   Peskind, Elaine ^a,b   Edland, Steve D ^c   Schellenberg, Gerard ^a,b   Raskind, Murray ^a,b   Larson, Eric B ^d  

^a GERIATRIC RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Department of Pathology University of Washington Schools of Medicine and Public Health ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; SAMPLING; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SELECTION BIAS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0029901395     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1996.tb01836.x     Document Type: Article

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