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Apoe Genotype And Cerebral Glucose Metabolism: A Multi-Omics Approach, Holden C. Williams
Apoe Genotype And Cerebral Glucose Metabolism: A Multi-Omics Approach, Holden C. Williams
Theses and Dissertations--Physiology
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is encoded by the APOE gene, present in humans as three main isoforms (E2, E3, and E4). E4 carriers face up to a 15-fold increased risk for developing late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD), while E2 carriers are protected. Understanding the risk conferred by E4 has been an extensive research focus for nearly three decades, but the exact mechanism has yet to be proven. Many studies have demonstrated attenuated roles of E4 in classical hallmarks of AD, notably amyloid processing and neurofibrillary formation, which normally present later in disease progression. How APOE influences hallmarks that present much earlier are …