Combined effect of apolipoprotein e genotype and past fertility on age at onset of Alzheimer's disease in women

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 82-85

  Corbo, Rosa Maria ^b   Gambina, Giuseppe ^a   Ulizzi, Laura ^b   Monini, Patrizia ^b   Broggio, Elisabetta ^a   Rosano, Aldo ^b   Scacchi, Renato ^b  

^a Hospital of Verona   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; APOE genotype; Past fertility

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE LOCATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NULLIPARA; ONSET AGE; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E2; APOLIPOPROTEIN E3; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34447638685     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103866     Document Type: Article

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