Apoe ε2 and ε4 influence the susceptibility for Alzheimer's disease but not other dementias
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2010
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Apoe ε2 and ε4 influence the susceptibility for Alzheimer's disease but not other dementias / C. Lovati, D. Galimberti, D. Albani, P. Bertora, E. Venturelli, G. Cislaghi, I. Guidi, C. Fenoglio, F. Cortini, F. Clerici, D. Finazzi, G. Forloni, E. Scarpini, C. Mariani. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS. - ISSN 1948-1756. - 1:3(2010), pp. 193-200.
Abstract:
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype was determined in a population of patients with dementia, including 735 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 75 with Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), 97 with Vascular Dementia (VaD) and 40 with Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), as well as in 506 age- and gender-matched controls (CON). APOE ε2 allele frequency was lower in patients with AD (2.8%) than in CON (6.4%, P≤0.001, OR: 0.41). Similar results were obtained comparing AD with FTLD (6.7%, P≤0.01, OR: 0.37), at difference from VaD (5.6%, P>0.05) or LBD (5.0%, P>0.05). The frequency of the APOE ε4 allele was increased in patients with AD (25.1%) as compared with CON (8.2%, P≤0.001, OR: 4.24), FTLD (11.3%, P≤0.001, OR: 2.67), VaD (11.8%, P≤0.001, OR: 3.02), or LBD (13.8%, P=0.048, OR: 2.07). The frequency of the ε4/ε4 genotype was increased in AD patients compared with controls (6.3 versus 0.8%, P≤0.001, OR: 8.38). The presence of the ε2 allele is a protective factor for AD, whereas the ε4 allele acts as a risk factor for the disease. Both alleles do not influence the susceptibility to FTLD, LBD and VaD.
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01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Alzheimer's disease (AD); Apolipoprotein E (APOE); Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneraton (FTLD); Lewy body dementia (LBD); Vascular dementia (VaD); risk factor
Elenco autori:
C. Lovati, D. Galimberti, D. Albani, P. Bertora, E. Venturelli, G. Cislaghi, I. Guidi, C. Fenoglio, F. Cortini, F. Clerici, D. Finazzi, G. Forloni, E. Scarpini, C. Mariani
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