Genetic association study between senile dementia of Alzheimer's type and APOE/C1/C2 gene cluster.
Senile dementia of Alzheimer's type (SDAT) is characterized by progressive deficits of multiple cognitive functions in elderly more than 65 years of age. The APOE-epsilon 4 allele has been shown to be a risk factor for SDAT. To investigate the genetic interactions between SDAT and the APOE/APOC1/APOC2 gene cluster located at 19q13.2, we genotyped these genes in patients with SDAT and nondemented controls. Although allelic associations were found between the APOC1 locus and SDAT (p = 0.0022) as well as between the APOE locus and SDAT (p < 0.0001), no associations were detected between the APOC2 locus and SDAT. And the association between the APOE and APOC1 locus in SDAT was statistically more significant than that in controls (p < 0.001). Estimation of the haplotype frequencies indicated that the association between the APOE/APOC1 haplotype and SDAT was more significant than linkage disequilibrium between the APOE and APOC1 locus (p < 0.01). These results suggest that genetic interaction between the APOE and APOC1 gene could modify a risk factor of APOE-epsilon 4 for SDAT. The APOE/APOC1 locus was estimated to be responsible for 54.8% of SDAT in the Japanese population.
Kamino
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Department of Geriatric Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
Yoshiiwa
A
A
Nishiwaki
Y
Y
Nagano
K
K
Yamamoto
H
H
Kobayashi
T
T
Nonomura
Y
Y
Yoneda
H
H
Sakai
T
T
Imagawa
M
M
Miki
T
T
Ogihara
T
T
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000483:Alleles; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D053302:Apolipoprotein C-I; D053304:Apolipoprotein C-II; D001056:Apolipoproteins C / Q000235:genetics*; D001057:Apolipoproteins E / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D005787:Gene Frequency; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D005810:Multigene Family
D053302:Apolipoprotein C-I; D053304:Apolipoprotein C-II; D001056:Apolipoproteins C; D001057:Apolipoproteins E