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SUBMITTER: Erk S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6634131 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20111201 49
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating, common, progressive dementia with considerable heritability. Recently, a genetic variant associated with the disease was discovered at CLU (rs11136000) with genome-wide support. Here we show, using an imaging genetics approach in a large genotyped sample, that healthy carriers of the variant exhibit altered coupling between hippocampus and prefrontal cortex during memory processing, mirroring clinical evidence of disturbed connectivity in patients and provid ...[more]