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Title
Structural and resting‐state MRI detects regional brain differences in young and mid‐age healthy APOE‐e4 carriers compared with non‐APOE‐e4 carriers
Published in
NMR in Biomedicine, February 2016
DOI 10.1002/nbm.3502
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Abstract

The presence of the e4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the best-known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. In this study, we investigated the link between functional and behavioural differences and regional brain volume and cortical thickness differences in those who carry the e4 allele (e4+) and those who only carry the e3 allele (e3/e3). We studied these genotype populations in two age groups: a young group (average age, 21 years) and a mid-age group (average age, 50 years). High-resolution T1 -weighted MRI scans were analysed with Freesurfer to measure regional white matter brain volume and cortical thickness differences between genotype groups at each age. These data were correlated with behavioural findings in the same cohort. Resting-state MRI was also conducted to identify differences in underlying brain functional connectivity. We found that there was a positive correlation between the thickness of the parahippocampal cortex in young e4+ individuals and performance on an episodic memory task. Young e4+ individuals also showed a positive correlation between white matter volume in the left anterior cingulate and performance on a covert attention task. At mid-age, e4+ individuals had structural differences relative to e3/e3 individuals in these areas: the parahippocampal cortex was thicker and white matter volume in the left anterior cingulate was greater than in e3/e3 individuals. We discuss the possibility that an over-engagement with these regions by e4+ individuals in youth may have a neurogenic effect that is observable later in life. The cuneus appears to be an important region for APOE-driven differences in the brain, with greater functional connectivity among young e3/e3 individuals and greater white matter volume in young e4+ individuals. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 93 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 17%
Researcher 14 15%
Student > Master 11 12%
Student > Bachelor 9 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 14 15%
Unknown 24 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 22 23%
Psychology 20 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Engineering 3 3%
Other 13 14%
Unknown 29 31%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 March 2016.
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#3,262,911
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#74
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#49,946
of 302,842 outputs
Outputs of similar age from NMR in Biomedicine
#2
of 54 outputs
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