Title |
Common genetic variation of the APOE gene and personality
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Published in |
BMC Neuroscience, May 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2202-15-64 |
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Authors |
Christian Montag, Lukas Kunz, Nikolai Axmacher, Rayna Sariyska, Bernd Lachmann, Martin Reuter |
Abstract |
A recent study yielded first evidence that personality plays an important role in explaining the influence of a prominent APOE polymorphism on cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD) in elderly humans. Adding to this, two earlier studies examined this polymorphism in the context of individual differences in temperament traits in young humans with mixed results. In general, research linking the prominent APOE ϵ2, ϵ3 and ϵ4 variants and human personality is of special interest, because an influence of this gene and its prominent polymorphism on personality in young adulthood could be of diagnostic value to predict AD and its development in later years. |
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