Apolipoprotein ε4 is Associated with Lower Brain Volume in Cognitively Normal Chinese but Not White Older Adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Yokoyama, Jennifer S ^a   Lee, Allen K L ^a   Takada, Leonel T ^a,b   Busovaca, Edgar ^a   Bonham, Luke W ^a   Chao, Steven Z ^c,d   Tse, Marian ^a   He, Jing ^e   Schwarz, Christopher G ^f   Carmichael, Owen T ^e,g   Matthews, Brandy R ^h   Karydas, Anna ^a   Weiner, Michael W ^a,i   Coppola, Giovanni ^j   DeCarli, Charles S ^e   Miller, Bruce L ^a   Rosen, Howard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^g University of California   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E EPSILON4; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOE EPSILON4 GENE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANALYSIS; BRAIN SIZE; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRECUNEUS; RISK; AGING; ALLELE; BRAIN; CHINA; COGNITION; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BRAIN; CHINA; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84929191707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118338     Document Type: Article

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