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Study: Dementia may run in the family
Undertaken by the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), the research involved 715 people, of which 372 were women and 342 were male.
ApoE e4 gene carriers - whose parents also had the condition - were found to score significantly worse in formal memory and verbal testing, in comparison to subjects of the same age who had no family history of dementia.
Professor of neurology at the Medical Education for Neurology Residency Programme at BUSM Sudha Seshadri was the senior author of the study.
She said: "Parental dementia and Alzheimer's disease were significantly associated with poorer performance in verbal and visual memory tasks."
Researchers noted the ApoE e4 gene is "at least partially responsible" for the transmission of dementia through family generations.
According to the Alzheimer's Society, 15,000 younger people in the UK suffer from the condition.
20 February 2009
Dementia or Alzheimer's disease may run in the family, according to a study.Undertaken by the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), the research involved 715 people, of which 372 were women and 342 were male.
ApoE e4 gene carriers - whose parents also had the condition - were found to score significantly worse in formal memory and verbal testing, in comparison to subjects of the same age who had no family history of dementia.
Professor of neurology at the Medical Education for Neurology Residency Programme at BUSM Sudha Seshadri was the senior author of the study.
She said: "Parental dementia and Alzheimer's disease were significantly associated with poorer performance in verbal and visual memory tasks."
Researchers noted the ApoE e4 gene is "at least partially responsible" for the transmission of dementia through family generations.
According to the Alzheimer's Society, 15,000 younger people in the UK suffer from the condition.
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