Familial aggregation of Alzheimer disease among whites, African Americans, and Caribbean Hispanics in northern Manhattan

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 72-77

  Devi, Gayatri ^a,b,c   Ottman, Ruth ^a,d,e   Tang, Ming Xin ^a,b,c   Marder, Karen ^a,b,c   Stern, Yaakov ^a,b,c,e   Mayeux, Richard ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c Taub Inst Res Alzheimer's Dis A   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING;

EID: 0033970929     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.57.1.72     Document Type: Article

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