HIV-infected subjects with the E4 allele for APOE have excess dementia and peripheral neuropathy

Nature Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1182-1184

  Corder, Elizabeth H ^a,b   Robertson, Kevin ^c   Lannfelt, Lars ^d   Bogdanovic, Nenad ^d   Eggertsen, Gösta ^d   Wilkins, Jean ^c   Hall, Colin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ADULT; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TRIXIS;

EID: 0031752364     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/2677     Document Type: Article

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