Apolipoprotein e polymorphism and dementia: A hospital-based study from southern India

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 455-460

  Bharath, Srikala ^a   Purushottam, Meera ^a   Mukherjee, Odity ^b   Bagepally, Bhavani Shankara ^a   Prakash, Om ^c   Kota, Lakshminarayanan ^a   Krishnappa, Srinivas Brahmadevarahalli ^b   Sivakumar, Palanimuthu Thangaraju ^a   Jain, Sanjeev ^a   Varghese, Mathew ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; ApoE4; Cognitive disorders; Dementia; Geriatric clinic; India; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E2; APOLIPOPROTEIN E3; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; DEMENTIA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79251531677     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322093     Document Type: Article

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