Linkage analysis of Alzheimer disease with psychosis.

Bacanu, S A; Devlin, B; Chowdari, K V; DeKosky, S T; Nimgaonkar, V L; Sweet, R A · Neurology · 2002

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Although a portion of risk for late-onset AD (LOAD) is attributable to APOE, the search for other loci is ongoing. The authors hypothesize that psychotic symptoms with LOAD (LOAD+P) identify a potentially more etiologically homogeneous form of AD. Linkage analysis of families with LOAD+P identified one significant and several suggestive novel linkage signals, which bolsters the conjecture of greater etiologic homogeneity.

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