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SUBMITTER: Caselli RJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3700591 | biostudies-other | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 20130326 1
<h4>Objective</h4>A National Institute on Aging-sponsored work group on preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) articulated the need to characterize cognitive differences between normal aging and preclinical AD.<h4>Methods</h4>Seventy-one apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 homozygotes, 194 ε3/ε4 heterozygotes, and 356 ε4 noncarriers age 21 to 87 years who were cognitively healthy underwent neuropsychological testing every 2 years. Longitudinal trajectories of test scores were compared between APOE subgroup ...[more]