Concordance rates for cognitive impairment among older African American twins

Alzheimer's and Dementia

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 276-279

  Whitfield, Keith E ^a   Kiddoe, Jared ^b   Gamaldo, Alyssa ^c   Andel, Ross ^d   Edwards, Christopher L ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Cognitive impairment; Concordance rates; Heritability; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW FOR COGNITIVE STATUS; TWIN CONCORDANCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 65449184086     PISSN: 15525260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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