African ancestry protects against Alzheimer's disease-related neuropathology

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-85

  Schlesinger, D ^a,b   Grinberg, L T ^a,c   Alba, J G ^a   Naslavsky, M S ^a   Licinio, L ^a   Farfel, J M ^a   Suemoto, C K ^a   De Lucena Ferretti, R E ^a,d   Leite, R E P ^a   De Andrade, M P ^a   Dos Santos, A C F ^e   Brentani, H ^a   Pasqualucci, C A ^a   Nitrini, R ^a   Jacob Filho, W ^a   Zatz, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Universidade do Grande ABC   (Brazil)

^e A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; ancestry; dementia; ethnicity; neuropathology; race

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; LEWY BODY; NEGRO; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAZIL; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; ODDS RATIO; PLAQUE, AMYLOID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84871329650     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2011.136     Document Type: Article

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