Head injury and the risk of AD in the MIRAGE study

Guo, Zixuan; Adrienne Cupples, L.; Kurz, Alexander; Auerbach, Sanford; Volicer, Ladislav; Chui, Helena; C. Green, R.; Dessa Sadovnick, A.; Duara, Ranjan; DeCarli, Charles; Johnson, Kathleen; C.P. Go, Rodney; H. Growdon, John; L. Haines, Jonathan; A. Kukull, Walter; A. Farrer, Lindsay

doi:10.1212/wnl.54.6.1316

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Head injury and the risk of AD in the MIRAGE study

Published in Neurology • Mar 28, 2000

Authors:

Zixuan Guo

L. Adrienne Cupples

Alexander Kurz

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: It has been suggested in some studies that head injury is a risk factor for AD, and that this risk is heightened among carriers of the APOE-epsilon4 allele. We examined the effects of head injury and APOE genotype on AD risk in a large family study. SUBJECTS: A total of 2,233 probands wh...

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