Apolipoprotein E genotype and concomitant clinical features in early-onset Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 243, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 465-468

  Bronzova, Juliana ^a,b   Van Duijn, Cornelia M ^a   Havekes, Louis M ^c   De Knijff, Peter ^c   Van Broeckhoven, Christine ^d   Hofman, Albert ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Apolipoprotein E gene

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; RISK; SEIZURE; TREMOR;

ALLELES; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0029941155     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00900501     Document Type: Article

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