The heritability of abstract reasoning in Caribbean Latinos with familial Alzheimer disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 411-417

  Johnson, Beverly ^a   Santana, Vincent ^a   Schupf, Nicole ^a,b,c   Tang, Ming X ^c   Stern, Yaakov ^a,b,d   Mayeux, Richard ^a,b,c,d   Lee, Joseph H ^a,b,c  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

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

^c Affiliated Faculty Global Institute of Public Health   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Abstract reasoning; Alzheimer disease; APOE; Cognitive reserve; Heritability; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EDUCATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOGIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CARIBBEAN REGION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36448994065     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109765     Document Type: Article

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