Age-dependent effect of Alzheimer's risk variant of CLU on EEG alpha rhythm in non-demented adults

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Ponomareva, Natalya ^a   Andreeva, Tatiana ^b,c   Protasova, Maria ^b   Shagam, Lev ^b   Malina, Daria ^a   Goltsov, Andrei ^b   Fokin, Vitaly ^a   Mitrofanov, Andrei ^d   Rogaev, Evgeny ^b,c,e  

^a RESEARCH CENTER OF NEUROLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d Institute of Psychiatry   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alpha rhythm; Alzheimer's disease; Clusterin; EEG; Genetic predisposition

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E EPSILON 4; CLUSTERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALLELE; ALPHA RHYTHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895792120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00086     Document Type: Article

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