APOE

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• 作者：Simona De Blasi ; Alberto Montesanto ; Cinzia Martino ; Serena Dato ; Francesco De Rango ; Amalia C. Bruni ; Vincenzo Mari ; Emidio Feraco ; Giuseppe Passarino
• 关键词：APOE ; Cognitive abilities ; Episodic memory ; MMSE ; Cognitive decline ; Aging
• 刊名：Experimental Gerontology
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：March 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：44
• 期：3
• 页码：224-227
• 全文大小：160 K

文摘

The APOE ε4 allele has been associated with a number of neurodegenerative disorders e.g. Alzheimer’s disease. Inconsistent results have been obtained for cognitive decline in ‘normal’ aging. We investigated whether specific aspects of cognitive decline were associated with APOE ε4 among 620 ‘healthy’ elderly subjects living in Calabria, southern Italy. MMSE scores ranged from 11 to 30. A lower MMSE score was unrelated to APOE polymorphism, i.e. a global measure of cognition. However, poorer episodic memory was associated with APOE ε4, both registration (p = 0.01) and recall (p = 0.01). Temporal and spatial orientation, attention and calculation, language, and constructive function were not affected. We conclude that episodic memory, specifically, is adversely affected by APOE ε4 and urge evaluation of precise phenotypes in genetic association studies of cognitive decline in order to avoid inconsistent results due to phenotypic heterogeneity.