APOE ε4 is associated with longer telomeres, and longer telomeres among ε4 carriers predicts worse episodic memory

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 335-344

  Wikgren, Mikael ^a   Karlsson, Thomas ^b   Nilbrink, Therese ^a   Nordfjäll, Katarina ^a   Hultdin, Johan ^a   Sleegers, Kristel ^c,d   van Broeckhoven, Christine ^c,d   Nyberg, Lars ^a   Roos, Göran ^a   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^e   Adolfsson, Rolf ^a   Norrback, Karl Fredrik ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

APOE; Cognition; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; COTININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LANGUAGE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 82755177401     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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