Polygenic risk for alzheimer's disease is not associated with cognitive ability or cognitive aging in non-demented older people

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 565-574

  Harris, Sarah E ^a   Davies, Gail ^a   Luciano, Michelle ^a   Payton, Antony ^b   Fox, Helen C ^c   Haggarty, Paul ^d   Ollier, William ^b   Horan, Michael ^b   Porteous, David J ^a   Starr, John M ^a   Whalley, Lawrence J ^c   Pendleton, Neil ^b   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; cognition; cohort studies; genetics; polygenic traits

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; YOUNG ADULT;

AGING; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; GENETICS; POLYGENIC TRAITS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84894170935     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-131058     Document Type: Article

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