Longitudinal memory performance during normal aging: Twin association models of APOE and other Alzheimer candidate genes

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 185-194

  Reynolds, Chandra A ^a   Prince, Jonathan A ^b   Feuk, Lars ^b   Brookes, Anthony J ^b,c   Gatz, Margaret ^b,d   Pedersen, Nancy L ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

A2M; APOE; Association; Memory; Twins

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN;

A2M GENE; AGE; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOE GENE; ARTICLE; CODOMINANCE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC RISK; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LRP GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWEDEN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TWINS; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALPHA-MACROGLOBULINS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; DISEASES IN TWINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LDL-RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33646361359     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-005-9027-6     Document Type: Article

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