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SUBMITTER: Hamilton G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3132531 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hamilton Gillian G Harris Sarah E SE Davies Gail G Liewald David C DC Tenesa Albert A Starr John M JM Porteous David D Deary Ian J IJ
International journal of Alzheimer's disease 20110612
Alzheimer's disease patients have deficits in specific cognitive domains, and susceptibility genes for this disease may influence human cognition in nondemented individuals. To evaluate the role of Alzheimer's disease-linked genetic variation on cognition and normal cognitive ageing, we investigated two Scottish cohorts for which assessments in major cognitive domains are available: the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1921 and the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1936, consisting of 505 and 998 individuals, resp ...[more]