Gender modulates the APOE ε4 effect in healthy older adults: Convergent evidence from functional brain connectivity and spinal fluid tau levels

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8254-8262

  Damoiseaux, Jessica S ^a   Seeley, William W ^b   Zhou, Juan ^c   Shirer, William R ^a   Coppola, Giovanni ^d   Karydas, Anna ^b   Rosen, Howard J ^b   Miller, Bruce L ^b   Kramer, Joel H ^b   Greicius, Michael D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; TAU PROTEIN;

AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; GENOTYPE; GRAY MATTER; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEIN E3; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BRAIN; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84862267382     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0305-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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