Apolipoprotein E-associated risk for Alzheimer's disease in the African-American population is genotype dependent

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Sahota, A
Yang, M
Gao, SJ
Hui, SL
Baiyewu, O
Gureje, O
Oluwole, S
Ogunniyi, A
Hall, KS
Hendrie, HC
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[1] INDIANA UNIV,SCH MED,DEPT PSYCHIAT,INDIANAPOLIS,IN 46202
[2] INDIANA UNIV,SCH MED,DEPT PSYCHIAT,INDIANAPOLIS,IN 46202
[3] INDIANA UNIV,SCH MED,DEPT MED,INDIANAPOLIS,IN 46202
[4] UNIV IBADAN,DEPT MED,IBADAN,NIGERIA
[5] UNIV IBADAN,DEPT PSYCHIAT,IBADAN,NIGERIA
[6] UNIV IBADAN,DEPT NEUROL,IBADAN,NIGERIA
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10.1002/ana.410420418
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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As a part of our ongoing study on Alzheimer's disease (AD) in elderly African Americans, we obtained clinical assessment and apolipoprotein E (ApoE) genotype data on 288 individuals (including 60 with AD). The ApoE epsilon 4 allele frequency was significantly increased in AD patients compared with controls. The age-adjusted odds ratio (OR) for AD in epsilon 4 homozygotes was 4.83 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.71-13.64) compared with the epsilon 3/epsilon 3 genotype, but the OR for AD with the epsilon 3/epsilon 4 genotype did not reach significance (1.20; 95% CI, 0.58-2.45). These findings suggest that the association between ApoE epsilon 4 and AD is weaker in African Americans than in whites.
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