Effects of APOE promoter polymorphism on the topological organization of brain structural connectome in nondemented elderly

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4847-4858

  Shu, Ni ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Ma, Chao ^a   Zhang, Junying ^a   Chen, Kewei ^a,b   Liang, Ying ^a   Chen, Yaojing ^a   Zhang, Zhanjun ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BANNER ALZHEIMER S INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

APOE promoter; Brain connectome; Cognition; Diffusion MRI; Graph theory

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTOME; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; REY OSTERRIETH COMPLEX FIGURE TEST; SENESCENCE; STROOP TEST; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SYMBOL DIGIT MODALITIES TEST; TRAIL MAKING TEST; WHITE MATTER; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84956581131     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22954     Document Type: Article

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