Age and the association between apolipoprotein E genotype and Alzheimer disease: A cerebrospinal fluid biomarker-based case-control study.

<h4>Background</h4>The ε4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene and increasing age are two of the most important known risk factors for developing Alzheimer disease (AD). The diagnosis of AD based on clinical symptoms alone is known to have poor specificity; recently developed diagnosti...

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Main Authors: Hana Saddiki, Aurore Fayosse, Emmanuel Cognat, Séverine Sabia, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, David Wallon, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Lucilla Parnetti, Inga Zerr, Peter Hermann, Audrey Gabelle, Mercè Boada, Adelina Orellana, Itziar de Rojas, Matthieu Lilamand, Maria Bjerke, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Lucia Farotti, Nicola Salvadori, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Timo Grimmer, Claire Hourregue, Aline Dugravot, Gaël Nicolas, Jean-Louis Laplanche, Sylvain Lehmann, Elodie Bouaziz-Amar, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Jacques Hugon, Christophe Tzourio, Archana Singh-Manoux, Claire Paquet, Julien Dumurgier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-08-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003289